The French suffered too: Admiral Brueys on Orient was severely wounded in the face and hand by flying debris during the opening exchange of fire with Bellerophon.

Orient had also suffered significant damage and Admiral Brueys had been struck in the midriff by a cannonball that almost cut him in half.

In addition to Admiral Brueys killed and Admiral Blanquet wounded, four captains died and seven others were seriously wounded.

* August 1 – Battle of the Nile ( near Abu Qir ): Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys ; Nelson himself is wounded in the head.

Both commanders would have seen the parallels of Macdonough's anchorage on Lake Champlain to that of the French under Vice Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys, opposing British Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, at the Battle of the Nile in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1798.

Made a division commander, he served in the expedition to Egypt as flag captain to Admiral Brueys.

Between 1 and 3 August 1798 a British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated a French fleet, under François-Paul Brueys d ' Aigalliers, in Aboukir Bay, in the Battle of the Nile.

Beatty died after catching a chill as pallbearer at the funeral of his old commander Admiral Jellicoe.

* 1596 – Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral died of dysentery on 27 January 1596 while attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Another well-known citizen of Middelburg was the Admiral and explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, who was born in the city in 1659, and died there in 1729.

The oldest was called James ; he died, travelling steerage to Australia, in the wreck of the SS British Admiral on 23 May 1874.

Smith-Cumming died suddenly at his home on 14 June 1923, shortly before he was due to retire, and was replaced as C by Admiral Sir Hugh " Quex " Sinclair.

* Admiral Lord Gardner-commanded a younger Nelson ) was born at the Manor house in the town in 1742, and died at Bath in 1810.

Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin died on 6 March 1984.

Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in central London built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Lt. General Denzil Kobbekaduwa together with Major General Vijaya Wimalaratne and Rear Admiral Mohan Jayamaha, died on 8 August 1992, at Araly ( Aeraella ) point Jaffna due to a land mine blast, which badly affected military morale.

William ( 8 October 1831 – 15 May 1834 ) who died as an infant, and a daughter, Lady Louisa Caroline ( d. 21 September 1907 ), who married Admiral the Honourable Francis Egerton.

Gondomar's friends at court, the bien intencionados of his dispatches centered upon the Howards, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton ( died 1614 ), Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, whose daughter was married to James's favourite, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and their protégés.

In 1939, when Admiral Sinclair died, Menzies was appointed Chief of SIS.

* Admiral Lord William FitzRoy ( 1 June 1782 – 13 May 1857 ), who married Georgiana Raikes ( died 2 December 1861 ) in 1816 and had two children.

1, 255 men, including Admiral Carlo Bergamini, died.

The 2nd, 4th, and 5th ( grand son of the 4th ) dukes of Infantado bore the name Íñigo López de Mendoza, to honor earlier ancestors, including the poet, while the 1st, 3rd and the one supposed to be the 5th but who died before his father the 4th, received the name Diego Hurtado de Mendoza as poet Iñigo father, by a second marriage, Diego, Admiral of Castile, deceased in 1404.

Admiral Wallis died in 1892 at his country home in Funtington, England, not far from Portsmouth and was buried in the village church yard.

He became an Admiral in November 1862 and died in comfortable retirement at his home in Woodbridge Park, near Guildford in Surrey, on 22 April 1865 aged 74.

Dirk Pitt went on, in the more recent novels, to become the head of NUMA when Admiral James Sandecker was appointed as Vice President of the United States by President Ward after the Vice President unexpectedly died in office.

General Madine, who appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi alongside Admiral Ackbar and Mon Mothma, had died in the novel Darksaber, published in 1995.

Mon Mothma's death occurred a few weeks before the events of Vector Prime, and Admiral Ackbar died towards the end of the New Jedi Order series.

Wilkes died in Washington, D. C. on February 8, 1877 at the rank of Rear Admiral.

William of Wykeham died in the town, while after the Battle of Trafalgar, some French sailors including Admiral Villeneuve were imprisoned there.

" Admiral Rodney was critical of Graves ' tactics, writing, " by contracting his own line he might have brought his nineteen against the enemy's fourteen or fifteen, [...] disabled them before they could have received succor, and gained a complete victory.

Here he met a British fleet of fifteen ships of the line commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Robert Calder.

When you moved into Admiral Halsey's command from Admiral Spruance's ... you moved an area in which you never knew what you were going to do in the next five minutes or how you were going to do it, because the printed instructions were never up to date ....

The U. S. ships opened fire at 01: 57, firing 612 shells in 21 minutes and six seconds, quickly sinking the destroyer and killing Admiral Akiyama.

Allied warships under Rear Admiral Victor Crutchley, RN, screening the transports were surprised at midnight and defeated in 32 minutes by a Japanese force of seven cruisers and one destroyer, commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa.

On October 24, 1944, Admiral Osterhaus and the other six members of the court deliberated for 80 minutes and found all 50 defendants guilty of mutiny.

Four minutes later, Vice Admiral Angelo Iachino, commander of the Italian cruiser group, received order to disengage, although the battle was slightly in their favour.

30 minutes after dawn, the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy sighted " Taffy 3 " — a task unit of Kinkaid's covering forces that consisted of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four small destroyer escorts, commanded by Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague.

A few minutes later, Admiral Janeway unleashes a neurolytic pathogen from within her bloodstream that devastates the Borg, physically making the queen fall apart.

* 10 March 1913 — LT John H. Towers ( later Admiral and Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics ) flew from Guantánamo Bay to Santiago in a Curtiss flying boat in 46 minutes.

Within minutes, Admiral Vitgeft was again headed for the open sea, and Admiral Togo's pincer gambit had failed, as Admiral Dewa's cruisers had to turn quickly to avoid Togo's battle line, and thus broke contact without having fired a shot.

Within 10 minutes of being relieved by the Asahi, Admiral Togo got his lucky break, when at 18: 40 hours Asahi fired a 305 mm salvo into the Russian flagship Tsesarevich, instantly killing Admiral Vitgeft and his immediate staff, and jamming the flagship's steering wheel.

Admiral Farragut in his reports states: " The attacking fleet steamed steadily up the main ship channel, the Tecumseh firing the first shot at forty-seven minutes past six o ' clock.