* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile ( Battle of Aboukir Bay ) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.

* A battle of annihilation is one in which the defeated party is destroyed in the field, such as the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.

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The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The Battle of the Nile: Destruction of ' L ' Orient ', 1 August 1798, Mather Brown, 1825, National Maritime Museum

Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, Thomas Whitcombe, 1816, National Maritime Museum – the climax of the battle, as Orient explodes

' Victors of the Nile ', a celebratory engraving published five years after the Battle of the Nile, depicting Nelson and his 15 captains.

The Battle of the Nile has been called " arguably, the most decisive naval engagement of the great age of sail ", and " the most splendid and glorious success which the British Navy gained.

The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.

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After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.

It included later mainstays such as " Frog and toad — the main road " and " Apples and pears — stairs " as well as many that later grew more obscure, e. g. " Battle of the Nile — a tile ( vulgar term for a hat )", " Duke of York — take a walk ", and " Top of Rome — home ".

Churchill had met Beatty when Beatty was commander of a gunboat on the Nile supporting the army at the Battle of Omdurman, in which Churchill took part as a cavalry officer.

Only a few weeks later the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson unexpectedly destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ( 1 – 3 August 1798 ).

In any event, Caesar withstood the Siege of Alexandria and later he defeated the pharaoh's forces at the Battle of the Nile in 47 BC and installed Cleopatra as ruler.

August 1: Battle of the Nile.

* 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.

However, Villeneuve had shown a distinct lack of enthusiasm for facing Nelson and the Royal Navy after the defeat at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

This precedent was established during World War II in the Battle of Guadalcanal and still remains viable today.

After visiting the site of the disastrous Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where 20, 000 Romans had been killed in 9 AD, and burying their remains, he launched a massive assault on the heartland of Arminius ' tribe, the Cherusci.

File: Jadavpur University Tank. jpg | Battle Tank remains

The country remains under Hungarian domination until the Battle of Posada on 12 October, 1330.

The original author remains unknown, but there were a number of continuations by different hands, continuing the story to the Battle of Halidon Hill ( 1333 ).

Charles was crushingly defeated by a larger Russian force under Peter in the Battle of Poltava and fled to the Ottoman Empire while the remains of his army surrendered at Perevolochna.

From 2001 to 2005, more remains were recovered from the Chosin Battle site, and around 220 were recovered near the Chinese border between 1996 to 2006.

The Battle of the Boyne remains a controversial topic today, especially in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.

After victory in the Battle of Omdurman, the remains of the Mahdi were exhumed and scattered.

Battle Abbey-Dorter, remains of cloister and Battle Abbey School

During the War of 1812, the area was the site of the Battle of Frenchtown, which was the worst American defeat in the war and remains the deadliest conflict ever on Michigan soil.

Pictures of the remains of soldiers killed during the Battle of Wittstock, China Daily, 25 July 2007

The remains of the prince were uncovered in response to a vision, before the Battle of Kulikovo in the year 1380, and found to be incorrupt.

The resulting Battle of Abensberg was a clear, French victory, following which Napoleon ordered all but Davout's III Corps and Lefebvre ’ s ( Bavarian ) VII Corps to pursue and destroy what he thought was the remains of the Austrian Army.

The 1575 Battle of Nagashino, in which about 3, 000 arquebusiers led by Oda Nobunaga cut down charging ranks of thousands of samurai, remains one of the chief examples of the effect of these weapons.

A more recent example is the Douaumont ossuary in France that contains the remains of more than 130, 000 French and German soldiers that fell at the Battle of Verdun during World War I.

It remains a matter of debate as to whether, at the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), Ferguson fought in the ranks throughout the day, and refused to leave the field, though ordered to do so by his colonel.

He only produced one surviving engraving, the Battle of the Nude Men, but both in its size and sophistication this took the Italian print to new levels, and remains one of the most famous prints of the Renaissance.

Leonard Maltin compared The Great Race pie fight to The Battle of the Century and determined that Laurel and Hardy's pacing was far superior ; that the more modern film suffered from an " incomplete understanding of slapstick " while the 1927 pie fight remains " one of the great scenes in all of screen comedy.

The Battle of the Somme remains significant today as an early example of film propaganda technique, as an historical record of the battle, and as a frequent source of footage illustrating the First World War.

On this basis, The Battle of the Somme remains one of the most successful British films ever made.

The Douaumont ossuary contains the remains of some of the 362, 000 French soldiers who died in the sole Battle of Verdun.