August 1798 in History

Events in History

Battle of the Nile

Aug 1 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt

Aug 2 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet
Aug 3 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates

Irish Rebellion of 1798

Aug 22 French troops land in Kilcummin harbour in County Mayo, Ireland, to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion

Irish Republican and Revolutionary Wolfe Tone

Aug 27 Battle of Castlebar, Ireland: French army and Irish rebels rout a larger the British force

Birthdays in History

Aug 15 Sangolli Rayanna, Indian military chief warrior, born in Karnataka, India (d. 1831)
Aug 21 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour), born in Paris (d. 1874)
Aug 28 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, U.S. Army (Union Navy), born in Monmouth County, New Jersey (d. 1863)

Deaths in History

Aug 1 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
Aug 21 Corneille-François de Nélis, Flemish scholar and bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62
Aug 24 Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
Aug 28 James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, dies at 55