"Disaster at Abouker: Brueys' or Napoleon Fault?" Topic
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Tango01  | 05 Apr 2018 10:21 p.m. PST |
Guess who…(smile)
Free to read here
PDF link
Hope you enjoy!
Amicalement
Armand
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| 21eRegt | 06 Apr 2018 4:59 a.m. PST |
Napoleon understood nothing of naval considerations but I have always felt the ultimate responsibility is with the admiral. |
| Tango01 | 06 Apr 2018 10:53 a.m. PST |
How can he desobey…?. Nelson would do it…? Amicalement
Armand |
| Frederick | 06 Apr 2018 11:16 a.m. PST |
Have to say – the fleet's disposition needs to be with the Admiral |
| Blutarski | 06 Apr 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
Well done, Armand. A very nice find indeed. My verdict – Brueys was at fault in a multiplicity of ways. He knew Nelson was at sea looking for him, yet he failed to detail any of his frigates as offshore scouts to give distant warning of a British approach. He apparently never gave any thought until the very last possible moment as to how he would fight a battle. His ultimate decision to fight at anchor was only signaled to his command an hour or two before the British entered Aboukir Bay. No thought was given to anchoring is ships in close mutually supporting order; his ships were all anchored at safe distances from one another in the conventional manner; no attention was paid to close up the head of the French line to the edge of the non-navigable shallows; no ships had springs on their anchor cables to manage the bearing of their gun batteries. To add insult to injury, Brueys had been present at the Battle of St Kitts (1782) and witnessed the very same sort of tactical arrangements successfully employed by the British Admiral Hood to fight his squadron at anchor against DeGrasse's superior French force. Brueys was IMO a man very much out of his professional depth. A more competent French commander could have made a much better resistance.
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Supercilius Maximus  | 07 Apr 2018 12:07 a.m. PST |
Napoleon's errors were strategic, Brueys' mistakes were tactical; reversing the former might have prevented the battle from ever happening, but the latter ensured that the battle was lost. |
| Tango01 | 07 Apr 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)
At least… he died as a trully Naval Officer….
Amicalement
Armand |
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