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cast: medal cast: commemorative medal
cast: medal cast: medal, Davison's Nile, 1798
cast: medal cast: medal, Davison's Nile, 1798(Britain)
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
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To the Right Honorable Horation Nelson..This View of the Approach of the British Squadron to the Attack of the French under Admiral De Brueys off the Mouth of the Nile on the Evening of 1st August 1798 (Print)
Battle of the Nile (Print)
Admiral Nelson's Victory. Over the French Fleet, near the Mouth of the Nile. August 1798 (Print)
This Action was fought on the 1st & 2nd of August 1798 between a Squadron of British Ships... and the French Fleet... moored in the Bay of Boukir... (Battle of the Nile) (Print)
Battle of the Nile...This Print representing the Quarter Deck of Lord Nelson's Ship the Vanguard, on the Night of...first of Augst 1798...is..Dedicated (Print)
Battle of the Nile (Print)
This Action was fought on the 1st & 2nd of August 1798, between a Squadron of British Ships under the Command of Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelosn KB and the French Commanded by Admiral de Brueys. The French were moored in the Bay of Aboukir... (Print)
Bataille d'Abukir a l'Embouchure du Nil donnee le 1.2. et 3me d'Aoust 1798 (Battle of the Nile) (Print)
The Battle of the Nile: Destruction of 'L'Orient', 1 August 1798 (Painting)
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: Beginning of the Action (Painting)
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 (Painting)
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: End of the Action (Painting)
View of the memorable Victory of the Nile, gained in August 1798" (Print)
The battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 (Painting)
Les Vaisseaux Celebres. Le Tonnant, au Combat D' Aboukir, (le 1er Aout 1798) (Print)
Admiral Lord Nelson, K B, and the Victory of the Nile (Print)
Fairburn's Plan of the Position of Adml Nelson's Squadron and the French Fleet August 1st 1798 and A Chart of the Mouths of the Nile, Alexandria &c &c (2nd Edition) (Print)
Disposition of the English and French Fleets at the commencement of the action August 1st 1798 (Print)
View 3d of the Memorable Victory of the Nile...August 1798, over the French by the British Fleet in Aboukir Bay (Print)
Panorama, Leicester Square. Short Account of Lord Nelson's Defeat of the French at the Nile (Print)
Panorama, Leicester Square. Short Account of Lord Nelson's Defeat of the French at the Nile (Print)
View 4th of the Memorable Victory of the Nile Gained in August 1798 over the French by the British Fleet in Aboukir Bay (Print)
View 3d of the Memorable Victory of the Nile Gained in August 1798 over the French by the British Fleet in Aboukir Bay (Print)
Admiral Nelson's Glorious Victory over the French Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile on the 1st Augt 1798. Manuscript Christmas Verse by Henry Vinicombe (Print)
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