'Lord Nelson engaging the Toulon Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile' RMG PU4019

'Lord Nelson engaging the Toulon Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile'
This vignette aerial view of the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, was published in the first issue of the 'Naval Chronicle' in 1799, effectively as plate III (f. p 42) although numbering did not start until plate V. A brief note on p. 42 states that the view is taken from the south-east looking west, with Rosetta in the distance beyond the Aboukir Fort. Later in the year, facing p. 521, the same journal published a 'Chart of the Bay of Aboukir', with a battle plan related to this illustration. This was also drawn up by Pocock from information supplied by both a French and British officer present.