L'Orient (ship, 1791)
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Explosion of L'Orient; John Thomas Serres , before 1825
The L'Orient was a ship of the line in the French Navy .
She was equipped with 120 cannons and had a crew of 1079 people. She was the flagship of Napoleon Bonaparte's French fleet at the mouth of the Nile , where the naval battle of Abukir with Horatio Nelson's fleet took place on August 1, 1798 . The L'Orient was commanded by Louis de Casabianca . Also on board was Admiral Brueys d'Aigalliers , who died seriously injured on the deck of the ship. On August 2, 1798, the ship sank after the magazine exploded. Among the dead were Casabianca and his twelve year old son.
In 1983 a team led by Jacques Dumas found the remains of the ship; Franck Goddio examined it in 1998.
literature
- Peter Padfield: Nelson's War. Wordsworth Military Library, 1976, ISBN 1-84022-225-5 .
Web links
Commons : L'Orient - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Very moving. Spiegel, July 18, 1983
- ↑ http://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/others/napoleon-bonapartes-fleet.html
- ↑ GA Henty: At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt. Henty Homeschool History Series. Fireship Press, 2010 [1]