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FRENCH LINE OF BATTLE
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Ships. Guns. Men. Commanders. How disposed of.
Le Guerrier 74 700 Taken, and ⟨burnt⟩ by the British.
Le Conquerant 74 700 Taken.
Le Spartiate 74 700 Taken.
L'Aquilon 74 700 Thevenard. Taken, and called the Aboukir.
Le Souverain Peuple 74 700 Taken and called Le Guerrier.
Le Franklin 80 800 Blanquet, first contre-amiral. Taken, and called the Canopus.
L'Orient 120 1010 Brueys, commander in chief Blown up.
Le Tonnant 80 800 Taken.
L'Heureux 74 700 Taken, and burnt by the British.
Le Timoleon 74 700 Drove ashore, & burnt by her own crew.
Le Mercure 74 700 Taken, and burnt by the British.
Le Guillaume Tell 80 800 Villeneuve second centre-amiral. Escaped.
Le Genereux 74 700 Escaped.
FRIGATES.
La Diane 48 300 Escaped.
La Justice 44 300 Escaped.
L'Artimese 36 250 Escaped.
La Serieuse 36 250 Dismasted, and sunk.
French vanity never suffered so severely as by this decisive battle, nor did it ever appear in a more ludicrous light, than when wincing under the defeat of the Nile. Their Journalists, of the period, very gravely advanced an opinion, that Admiral Nelson had no orders to take their fleet in the manner he did, and that he would find some difficulty in justifying his conduct!!! Others asserted, that had it not been for the accident of the Orient blowing up, it would have been at least a drawn battle. And another declared, that had not Nelson played them that scurvy trick of passing
