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Identifier: navalbattlesanci00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles, ancient and modern
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911
Subjects: Naval battles
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.C. McCurdy & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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wo momentous battles within a very shorttime. The Turkish part of the expedition didnot make its appearance, having been dispersed by badweather. The English force consisted of seven sail-of-the-line, and several frigates and sloops, under the commandof Admiral Lord Keith, in the Foudroyant, 80. Theseescorted a large number of disarmed men-of-war andtransports, which conveyed about 17,000 English troops,under Sir Ralph Abercrombie. The whole day of arrivalwas taken up in anchoring this numerous fleet, and thena succession of high northerly gales, with a heavy surf,prevented the landing of the troops until the 8th ofMarch. This gave the French time to muster all theforce which they could spare to oppose the landing.This is stated in the British account to have been about3000, while the French put it down at not more than1200 men. There is every probability, however, that theFrench left out of their estimate the cavalry and artillery,which were certainly engaged in disputing the English
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CAPTURE OF ALEXANDRIA. 349 landing. The French troops were under the commandof General Friant, who, with great judgment, had stationeda part of his men and several pieces of artillery on analmost inaccessible hill that commanded the whole placeof disembarkation, while other parties, with field piecesand mortars, occupied excellent positions afforded by theneighboring ground. In good season, on the morning of the 8th, the boatsof the fleet formed in line abreast, in the same order inwhich the troops, consisting of the first division of aboutsix thousand men, were to form when landed. They thenpulled rapidly towards the beach, which extends betweenthe Castle or Fort of Aboukir and the river Sed. Thewhole of the landing arrangements were in charge ofCaptain Cochrane, of the Ajax; and the boats werepartially protected, in their landing, by the guns of armedcutters, gun-boats, and launches, as well as by three sloopsand two bomb-vessels. As soon as the boats got near the shore a very sharp

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