Visual Materials

Battle of the Nile, at 10 o'clock at night

Description: Image of a stern view of the H.M.S. Bellerophon partly dismasted, seen against flames from another vessel, in a line of anchored ships flying the white ensign and partly obscured by gun-smoke as the British Royal Navy attacks the French fleet during the Battle of the Nile in 1798; men in row boats at bottom right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1799 February
Call number: priTEC 0078
Creator: Congdon, Theodore G(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon, 2006.; Gift of Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon, 2008.
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