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Honour - Egypt 1801 |
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By 1801 Napoleon was at the height of his power and all conquering across
Europe. Egypt was of strategic importance, not only as a gateway to the East, but also as a bargaining chip when war ended. He intended to reinforce the Expeditionary troop left isolated when Nelson destroyed the French Fleet at the Nile 01-Aug-1798. However the British forestalled this by conducting the first amphibious landing of the war at Aboukir. The landing was conducted by overwhelming force, French defeated, and Cairo captured. The French remnants rounded up and sent home by the Turks and Mamalukes. |
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| HM Ships | ||||
| Active | Agincourt | Ajax | Alexander | Alligator |
| Asp | Astraea | Athenian | Babelmandeb | Ballahou |
| Blonde | Bonne Citoyenne | Brackel | Cameleon | Ceres |
| Charon | Chichester | Cruelle | Cyclops | Cynthia |
| Dangereuse | Delft | Determinee | Diadem | Diane |
| Dictator | Dido | Dolphin | Dover | Dragon |
| Druid | El Carmen | Entreprenante | Espiegle | Europa |
| Eurus | Expedition | Experiment | Flora | Florentina |
| Foudroyant | Fox | Fulminante | Fury | Gibraltar |
| Good Design | Gorgon | Gozo | Greyhound | Haerlem |
| Hebe | Hector | Heroine | Inconstant | Inflexible |
| Iphigenia | Janissary | Kangaroo | Kent | Leda |
| Leopard | Madras | Malta | Minerve | Minorca |
| Minotaur | Modeste | Mondovi | Monmouth | Negresse |
| Niger | Northumberland | Pallas | Pearl | Pegasus |
| Penelope | Peterel | Phoenix | Pigmy | Pique |
| Port Mahon | Regulus | Renommee | Renown | Resource |
| Roebuck | Romney | Romulus | Rosa | Salamine |
| Santa Dorothea | Santa Teresa | Scampavia | Sensible | Sheerness |
| Sir Sidney Smith | Spider | Stately | Sultana | Swiftsure |
| Tartarus | Termagant | Thetis | Thisbe | Tigre |
| Tourterelle | Transfer | Trusty | Ulysses | Urchin |
| Vestal | Victor | Victorieuse | Vincejo | Wilhelmina |
| Winchelsea | Woolwich | |||
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This page last edited -
11 August, 2012.
Copyright © Ian M King, except where otherwise indicated. |
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