Major conflict1798

Battle of the Nile

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Aboukir Bay

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Nelson's destruction of the French Mediterranean fleet in Aboukir Bay, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
First French Republic

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1783)

Conflict graph

PART OFFrench Revolutionary Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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