Nile Attack Signal — 3pm 1 August 1798

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A shoal bay. Not a flag plate and not a likeness.

Overview

The hoist is already on the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview signalled the attack at 3pm on 1 August 1798 with the British fleet still 8 miles distant.¹

The Hoist

This note covers that 3pm attack signal only. A flag colour, a code book, and a later Popham table stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The same battle note already records the choice to engage at dusk in uncharted shoal water. That choice stays there. Foley Thomas — British Captain already used the inshore passage. Do not invent a flag colour from this page. Do not rewrite the 6:30pm opening here.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Communications_Signals
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Same Subject

• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
• Aboukir Bay — Egypt
• England Expects Signal — Trafalgar 1805
• Jervis Signal — Drive Between 11am 1797

Cross-Domain

• HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline

Footnotes

1. Signalled the attack at 3pm, still 8 miles distant: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. ↩

2. Dusk in uncharted shoal water stays on the Nile note. Inshore passage stays on Foley Thomas — British Captain. Do not invent a flag colour or a code book. Do not rewrite the 6:30pm opening. ↩