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Brueys and had
When Alexandria harbour proved inadequate for his fleet, Brueys had gathered his captains and discussed their options.
Bonaparte had ordered the fleet to anchor in Aboukir Bay, a shallow and exposed anchorage, but had supplemented the orders with the suggestion that if Aboukir Bay was too dangerous Brueys could sail north to Corfu, leaving only the transports and a handful of lighter warships at Alexandria.
It is possible that Bonaparte envisaged Aboukir Bay as a temporary anchorage: on 27 July he expressed the expectation that Brueys had already transferred his ships to Alexandria and three days later issued orders for the fleet to make for Corfu in preparation for naval operations against the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, although the courier carrying the instructions was intercepted and killed by Bedouin partisans.
Brueys had augmented the fort with his bomb vessels and gunboats, which were anchored among the rocks to the west of the island in a position to give support to the head of the French line.
A more pressing problem for Brueys was a lack of food and water for the fleet: Bonaparte had unloaded almost all of the provisions carried aboard and no supplies were reaching the ships from the shore.
Due to the need for so many sailors to work onshore, Brueys had not deployed any of his lighter warships as scouts, which left him unable to swiftly react to the sudden appearance of the British.
As his ships readied for action, Brueys ordered his captains to gather for a conference on Orient and hastily recalled his shore parties, although most had still not returned by the start of the battle.
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 his defence, he pleaded that the wind had been against him and that Brueys had not issued orders for him to counterattack the British fleet.

Brueys and ships
With Brueys dead and his van and centre defeated, the rear division of the French fleet attempted to break out of the bay, but ultimately only two ships of the line and two frigates escaped, from a total of 17 ships engaged.
He instructed his naval commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, to anchor in Alexandria harbour, but naval surveyors reported that the channel into the harbour was too shallow and narrow for the larger ships of the French fleet.
These shoals were too shallow to permit passage of larger warships, and so Brueys ordered his thirteen ships of the line to form up in a line of battle following the northeastern edge of the shoals to the south of the island, a position that allowed the ships to disembark supplies from their port side while covering the landings with their starboard batteries.
In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged.
By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.
Shortly after the French order to set sails was abandoned, the British fleet began rapidly approaching once more and Brueys, now expecting to come under attack on that night, ordered each of his ships to also place springs on their anchor cables and prepare for action.

Brueys and were
Convinced by this that rather than risk an evening battle in confined waters, the British were planning to wait for the following day, Brueys rescinded his earlier order to sail.
In addition to Admiral Brueys killed and Admiral Blanquet wounded, four captains died and seven others were seriously wounded.

Brueys and for
Villeneuve came under scathing attack on his return to France for his failure to support Brueys during the battle.
A writer very popular in Provence for the light-hearted productions of his youth was Claude Brueys ( 1570 – 1650 ), remarkable chiefly for comedies that deal largely with duped husbands ( Jardin deys musos provensalos, not published till 1628 ).

Brueys and British
Brueys also hoped to lure the British fleet onto the shoals at Aboukir Island, sending the brigs Alerte and Railleur to act as decoys in the shallow waters.
Brueys may have been hoping that the delay would allow him to slip past the British during the night and thus follow Bonaparte's orders not to engage the British fleet directly if it could be avoided.
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.
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.

Brueys and ship
To remedy this, Brueys sent foraging parties of 25 men from each ship along the coast to requisition food, dig wells and collect water.

Brueys and French
With the French army ashore, the fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, a station northeast of Alexandria, in a formation that its commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, believed established a formidable defensive position.
Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.
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.
* 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.
* August 1 – François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, French admiral ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1753 )
* February 12 – François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, French admiral ( d. 1798 )
** David-Augustin de Brueys, French theologian and dramatist ( died 1723 )
* Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, Count de Brueys, ( 1753 – 1798 ), the French commander in the Battle of the Nile.
David-Augustin de Brueys ( 1640 – November 25, 1723 ) was a French theologian and dramatist.

Brueys and .
Brueys wrote a letter describing the situation to Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix, reporting that " Our crews are weak, both in number and quality.
Admiral Brueys died fifteen minutes later, remaining on deck and refusing to be carried below by his men.

dispositions and had
For one thing they had too good an opinion of their own ability ... Another point was their faulty field dispositions, and in addition there was rampant indiscipline and inexperience displayed ...
Further, his intelligence-gathering efforts on Spanish troop dispositions and equipment was extremely meagre, though he had a number of sources available to him, including reconnaissance reports by Cuban rebel forces as well as espionage obtained from indigenous Cubans.
Manfred had adopted similar dispositions.
Before the final attack began, Xenophon, the main relator of the events at Cunaxa, who was probably at the time some kind of mid-level officer, approached Cyrus to ensure that all the proper orders and dispositions had been made.
Operating over a fifty mile front, from Ratisbon to Pfaffenhofen, marked by stretches of rugged, wooded terrain, neither the French nor the Austrians had developed adequate intelligence about their opponent's strength, dispositions or intentions.
While parallel, the dispositions of the armies were not symmetrical, as the Serbian center had a broader front than the Ottoman center.
Rick and Kris had much in common: quiet dispositions, Hollywood upbringings, and high-powered, domineering fathers.
On 6 February 2008, the Holy See's newspaper, L ' Osservatore Romano, published a note by the Vatican Secretariat of State, announcing that, with reference to the dispositions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI had decided to amend the Good Friday prayer for the Jews contained in the Roman Missal of 1962, and decreeing that the amended text " must be used, beginning from the current year, in all celebrations of the Liturgy of Good Friday according to the aforementioned Missale Romanum ".
Initial German dispositions had also directed battleships and and the heavy cruiser to concentrate in Arctic waters, but these all fell victim to Allied air attacks, and had to turn back for repairs.
Also some of the tasks that had been assigned were impractical or had not been rehearsed — the wire intended for use as a road block was too heavy to carry from the beach — and intelligence relating to enemy dispositions upon the island was at best outdated or completely wrong.
One ’ s “ race ” necessarily implied that one group had certain character qualities and physical dispositions that differentiated it from other human populations.
As a result of these dispositions, by the end of the first day the immediate division of responsibility had the NZ & Aus Division holding the left flank of the landing and the 1st Division holding the right and centre.
Admiral Tourville, finding himself with few adversaries in the centre, pushed forward his own leading ships which Torrington's dispositions had left without opponents, further strengthening the French attack in the van.
Although the Ottomans had fairly accurately estimated the total Allied strength, Liman lacked intelligence on the Allied plans and dispositions and was forced to dispose his forces evenly along the entire length of his front.
First, many of the previous generation of perceived leaders ( such as Daniel Sommer, J. D. Tant, Joe Warlick, and F. B. Srygley ) had died, leaving others with different beliefs and dispositions to take their place.
Garnier's wife Louise later wrote that the French architect Alphonse de Gisors, who was on the jury, had commented to them that Garnier's project was " remarkable in its simplicity, clarity, logic, grandeur, and because of the exterior dispositions which distinguish the plan in three distinct parts — the public spaces, auditorium, and stage ... ' you have greatly improved your project since the first competition ; whereas Ginain first-place winner in the first phase has ruined his.
On 5 July, 1774, about seven months after he began translating the Code, the Governor presented to the council that in consequence of the new dispositions for the post of faujdar, his correspondence and need for translators of Persian documents had risen considerably and that he required an assistant in addition to the munshis.
And finally, what he believed to be the most important point, " the methods had to be elaborated in such a way that the personal traits and dispositions might be discovered with much greater exactitude and with much richer detail than was possible through what a mere call on the vocational counselor could unveil.
Once Montgomery had seen Rommel ′ s dispositions after the initial advance, he released 23rd Armoured Brigade from XXX Corps reserve at the eastern end of Ruweisat Ridge to XIII Corps attached to 10th Armoured Division, and by 13: 00 on 31 August they had moved 100 Valentine tanks to fill the gap between 22nd Armoured Brigade and the New Zealanders.
He had plenty of time to prepare his dispositions and deployed his army in a relatively narrow and deep order, which was quite sensible, given that his intention was to remain on the grand defensive.
Beyond that, however, they had little intelligence as to the actual strength and dispositions of PAVN units.

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