French Fleet: Battle of the Nile Ship Guns Men (complement) Commander Fate Aquilon 74 700 Capt. H. A. Thevenard Taken Artemise 40 250 Capt. P. J. Standelet Destroyed Conquerant 74 700 Capt. S. Dalbarade Taken Diane 40 300 Rear Admiral Descres Capt. U.N. Solen Escaped Franklin 80 800 Rear Admiral A.S.M. Blanquet de Chayla Capt. M. Gilet Taken Genereux 74 700 Capt. Le Joille Escaped Guerrier 74 700 Capt. JFT Trullet Taken Guillaume Tell 80 800 Rear Admiral P.C.J.B.S. Villeneuve Capt. Saulnier Escaped Heureux 74 700 Capt. J.P. Etienne Taken Justice 40 300 Capt. Villeneuve Escaped Mercure 74 700 Capt. Cambon Taken Orient 120 1010 Vice Admiral F.P. Brueys** Capt. H. Ganteaume Destroyed Peuple Souverain 74 700 Capt. P.P. Raccord Taken Serieuse 36 250 Capt. CJ Martin Destroyed Spartiate 74 700 Capt. M. J. Emerlau Taken Timoleon 74 700 Capt. JFT Trullet Destroyed Tonnant 80 800 Capt. A.A. Dupetit Taken British Fleet: Battle of the Nile Ship Guns Men (complement) Commander Killed Wounded Alexander 74 590 Capt. Alexander John Ball* 14 58 Audacious 74 590 Capt. Davidge Gould 1 35 Bellerophon 74 590 Capt. Henry d'Esterre Darby* 49 148 Culloden 74 590 Capt. Thomas Troubridge 0 0 Defence 74 590 Capt. John Payton 4 11 Goliath 74 590 Capt. Thomas Foley 21 41 Leander 50 343 Capt. Thomas B. Thompson 0 14 Majestic 74 590 Capt. George B. Westcoft** 50 143 Minotaur 74 595 Capt. Thomas Louis 23 64 Mutine 16 120 Commander Thomas M. Hardy 0 0 Orion 74 590 Capt. Sir James Saumarez* 13 29 Swiftsure 74 590 Capt. Benjamin Hallowell 7 22 Theseus 74 590 Capt. Ralph W. Miller 5 30 Vanguard 74 640 Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson* Capt. Edward Berry*** 30 75 Zealous 74 590 Capt. Samuel Hood 1 7 * Wounded. ** Killed or died of wounds. *** Captured after the battle when the Leander, carrying Nelson' dispatches, was taken by the Genereux which had escaped. Battle Results Of the nine French ships captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile, Guerrier, Heureux and Mercure were burned by Nelson on 18 August because they could not be made ready for sailing in time to comply with new admiralty orders. Peuple Souverain was left at Gibraltar, renamed Guerrier, and used as a guardship. The remaining five French ships noted as "taken" arrived safely in England, and were incorporated into the British Navy. About 3,000 of the French sailors that survived the battle formed a "Nautical Legion" which served with Napoleon's Army of the Orient for the remainder of the Egyptian campaign. An interesting postscript about the British ship Bellerophon is that in 1815 when Napoleon surrendered following his defeat at Waterloo, he was transported to England aboard the Bellerophon which had participated in destroying his plans for Egypt seventeen years earlier. More Battle of the Nile 1798 Battle of the Nile 1798: Introduction Battle of the Nile 1798: French and British Navies Battle of the Nile 1798: French Luck and British Pursuit Battle of the Nile 1798: French Success and British Frustration Battle of the Nile 1798: Battle of Aboukir Bay Battle of the Nile 1798: British Campaign Medal Battle of the Nile 1798: French and British Order of Battle Battle of the Nile 1798: Large Voyage and Pursuit Maps (very slow: 386K) Battle of the Nile 1798: Large Battle Maps (very slow: 336K) Battle of the Nile 1798: Jumbo Battle Maps (extremely slow: 562K) Back to Table of Contents -- Napoleon #13 Back to Napoleon List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Napoleon LLC. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. The full text and graphics from other military history magazines and gaming magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com Order Napoleon magazine direct