Nelson and the Nile, 1798. Professor Roger Knight

The war against France was going badly in early 1798, when information was received in London about a huge expedition being assembled in Toulon under a young general called Napoleon Bonaparte. Nelson and his squadron of crack ships were sent to investigate, but, through British government blunders, he had little or no intelligence as to where it was heading. This is the story of how Nelson missed Bonaparte’s expedition, lost his foremast and was nearly shipwrecked, and finally found the French fleet in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria. The ensuing victory and destruction of French naval power in the Mediterranean started Britain’s recovery.

Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, Roger Knight is the author of The Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson.  He has cruised in most of the areas in which Nelson sailed - though not in Egyptian waters

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