THE BATTLE OF THE NILE: FRENCH PRIVATE NAVAL REPORTS, taken from intercepted letters which contained a full abstract of the battle written by Rear-Admiral Ganteaume, the Minister of Marine and who was aboard L'Orient : Alexandria, Aug 5 Several of the enemy's vessels having suddenly shortened sail, had turned the head of our line, and letting go their anchors, with a cable astern, had ranged along side, between us and the land; while others had moored themselves within pistol-shot of us, on the other side! By this manoeuvre, all our vessels, as far down as the Tonnant, found themselves completely enveloped, and placed between two fires Ganteaume writes: Obliged to give you an account of the most fatal of disasters, it is with piercing and heart-felt sorrow, that I acquit myself of this melancholy part of my duty The l'Orient took fire. It was by an accident which I cannot yet comprehend, that I escaped from the midst of the flames, and was taken into a yawl that was lying under the ship's counter page 3 cols 2-3 in a complete issue of THE TIMES for 14 December 1798 -- 50 cm of column space
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE: FRENCH PRIVATE NAVAL REPORTS, taken from intercepted letters which contained a full abstract of the battle written by Rear-Admiral Ganteaume, the Minister of Marine and who was aboard L'Orient : Alexandria, Aug 5 Several of the enemy's vessels having suddenly shortened sail, had turned the head of our line, and letting go their anchors, with a cable astern, had ranged along side, between us and the land; while others had moored themselves within pistol-shot of us, on the other side! By this manoeuvre, all our vessels, as far down as the Tonnant, found themselves completely enveloped, and placed between two fires Ganteaume writes: Obliged to give you an account of the most fatal of disasters, it is with piercing and heart-felt sorrow, that I acquit myself of this melancholy part of my duty The l'Orient took fire. It was by an accident which I cannot yet comprehend, that I escaped from the midst of the flames, and was taken into a yawl that was lying under the ship's counter page 3 cols 2-3 in a complete issue of THE TIMES for 14 December 1798 -- 50 cm of column space
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