Langridge — 1 August 1798

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A naval gun on a truck carriage. Not a named langridge portrait.

Overview

Langridge is already on Spartiate — French Ship of the Line and the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. Around 8:30pm on 1 August 1798 Spartiate fired the langridge that struck Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview on the forehead aboard HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship.¹

The Wound

This note covers that wound only. Composition, other uses, and a nature-of-guns table stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Nelson believed himself dying. He returned to the quarterdeck.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 281–320
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Spartiate — French Ship of the Line
• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Weapons_Technology
• Ammunition_Projectiles_Index

Same Battle

• Spartiate — French Ship of the Line
• HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
• L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
• Aboukir Bay — Egypt

Cross-Domain

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Langridge; forehead; about 8:30pm; Spartiate; Vanguard: Spartiate — French Ship of the Line and Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. ↩

2. Believed dying; returned to the quarterdeck: same notes. Do not invent a composition or other uses. ↩