The Age of Sail · 1 August 1798
The Night L’Orient Burned
A hundred-gun flagship goes up so loud the guns stop firing on both sides
The French fleet lay at anchor in Aboukir Bay, off the mouth of the Nile, in a long line close to the shoals, because Admiral Brueys thought no attacker would dare pass between his ships and the shore.
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