Foley Thomas — British Captain
Generated portrait. Not a historical photograph.
Overview
Captain Foley in HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate led five British ships inside the French line at the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview on 1 August 1798. The battle overview already says he saw that the French had not run out their inshore guns and took those ships between the line and the shore in Aboukir Bay — Egypt, doubling the van.1
Career and Key Roles
This note covers 1 August 1798 only. Birth, earlier service, Foley in HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate at Copenhagen, and later years stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.
Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview signalled the attack at 3pm and chose dusk in uncharted shoal water. Action opened at 6:30pm. HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship was the British flag under Berry. L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship exploded around 10pm with Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral aboard.2
Sources
- @knight2005pursuit — pp. 281–320
- @white2005nelson
- @adkin2005trafalgar
- Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
- HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate
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Same Battle
- HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate
- HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
- Aboukir Bay — Egypt
- L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
- Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral
- Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
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Footnotes
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Foley in Goliath; inshore guns not run out; five ships inside; doubled the van: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview and the Goliath note. Knight card: pp. 281–320, Foley’s inside passage. ↩
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3pm signal, dusk, shoal, 6:30pm, L’Orient ~10pm: same battle note. Do not add life dates or Copenhagen until a page is licensed for those facts as his. ↩