[NILE, Battle of the.]
‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of the Nile, gained in August 1798 over the French by the British fleet in Aboukir Bay’. South-West view on the 2d. of August at the time Le Genereux, Le Guillaume Tell, La Justice and La Diane were escaping pursued by the Zealous.
London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.
280 x 400 mm, aquatint view by F. Chesham and William Ellis after W. Anderson; traces of earlier mounting on verso, very light browning, trimmed with minor loss of lower edge; modern mount.
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‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of the Nile, gained in August 1798 over the French by the British fleet in Aboukir Bay’. South-West view on the 2d. of August at the time Le Genereux, Le Guillaume Tell, La Justice and La Diane were escaping pursued by the Zealous.
This engraving depicts the dramatic escape of four French ships from their fleet’s crushing defeat at the Battle of the Nile, and the accompanying text recounts the fortunate circumstances which allowed the French escape. The four ships from the French fleet still flying colours cut their cables and slipped out to sea, and, although HMS Zealous pursued, she was called back, as no other British ships were capable of supporting her pursuit.
The British victory at the Nile restored her naval supremacy in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the Napoleonic wars, and reduced the French navy enormously, in terms both of morale and materiel.
