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During the Napoleonic Wars after the Royal Navy left the Mediterranean, Napoleon was ordered to seize Egypt and to secure the Red Sea for France. When the British heard of the French landing, Admiral Horatio Nelson, with a Royal naval squadron, was sent to Egypt. On the 1st August, Horatio Nelson discovered the French fleet at anchor in Aboukir Bay, the French fleet consisted of 13 ships of the line, 4 naval frigates and a variety of troop ships. Admiral Nelson had a force of 14 ships, he divided his fleet into two, sailed one half of his fleet into the bay of Aboukir between the French and the shoreline, while the 2nd half of his fleet sailed the other side of the French line. The French fleet was almost entirely destroyed with only 2 French ships escaping. This British naval victory ended Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Aboukir Bay is East of Alexandria in Egypt.
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A mid 19th century parianware bust of Nelson on a turned socle, the wood and copper being salavaged from HMS Spartiate.
Spartiate was a French, 74 gun ship of the line lauched in 1797. In 1798 she was captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile and in 1805 she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar as HMS Spartiate under Francis Laforey. Together with Minotaur she took the Spanish ship Neptuno of 80 guns. In 1842 she was converted to a hulk and by May of 1857 she was completely broken up.
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