Enlightenment · Middle East · War
1798
Nelson Destroys French Fleet at the Nile
August 1, 1798
Horatio Nelson found the French fleet at anchor in Aboukir Bay at sundown and attacked at once, slipping half his ships between the French and the shore. By dawn thirteen French ships had been taken or destroyed, including the flagship Orient - blown up with such violence that battle stopped for ten minutes.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.