Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (TRIH ep 518, part 5)
1798 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1798) and Horatio Nelson’s audacious tactics and leadership. Drawing on Dominic’s book passages, they set the scene: the discovery of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, Nelson’s decision to attack immediately, the complex manoeuvre to anchor by the stern, and the British double-line that trapped the French.
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