| Description | Copy letter [bound] to Lt Col Desborough from William Darley written from the anchorage off Aboukar off the Nile Egypt. part of a narrative account of the activities in the Mediterranean of the Squadron (under Capt. Trowbridge) that left Cadiz in 24 May 1798, in Straits of Gibralter, Bay of Naples, Malta, Syracuse etc. and description of naval battle off Aboukar. Lists of French and English ships of the Line anchored at Aboukar plus number of their guns (names of English Capts only) and details of French ships sunk. |