Search for Napoleon's fleet

Highlight in this article The battle between the French fleet, led by Napoleon Bonaparte And the English fleet, led by Nelson On the shores of Alexandria in 1798. And the discovery of four ships from the sunken French fleet Greer is the Artemis and the Middle and Soirees And the discovery of guns and soaked with rifles and pistols The spy ship Patriot.

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Beginning of the idea of looking for sunken antiquities in Alexandria The search for sunken fleet of Napoleon Bonaparte on the coast of Alexandria.

Alexandria was the greatest cities in the world in the Greek era, Romanian, and raised the degradation starting from the sixth century AD, several questions have not been answered only recently through the archaeological discoveries at the bottom of the sea. The attention effects sunken in the city began searching for the fleet of Napoleon holding in Abu Qir Bay, which sank during the battle of war fought between the French fleet vertical Beach Abu Qir in 1798 after it came down Napoleon and his soldiers on the shore of Alexandria and the fleet the English, led by Nelson, and ended with this battle the defeat of Napoleon's fleet and sink.

The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French Institute for the effects of marine involved in the project screening of Napoleon's fleet in Abu Qir Bay, lasted from 1983 to 1987. This survey has been destroyed by the French (the Long), and resulted in the mapping of the effects Contrep sunken in the Gulf. Then the work of the French Diving Egypt to determine the number of sunken ships and four are: Orient and Jarir and Artemis and Soirees.

Have been identified accurately the number of pieces sunken, and was recovered some of which, DF weighing between three tons and tons, and belongings of soldiers, rifles and pistols, medals. The plant held a special restoration of these pieces in Alexandria, and some are displayed in the temporary exhibition in the castle of Bey. During the work was to detect the ship Patriot, a spy ship sent by France to search for the most appropriate site of the landing of French troops, but they hit some rocks and sank. This has had a bad impact of the incident which led to Napoleon's fleet floundering when he arrived to the shores of Egypt. And on the back of Patriot soldiers wrote a letter to his fiancée in France and placed in a bottle and threw it into the sea where the specific location of the ship exactly, and somehow the message went to France. When the team started diving Egyptian-French search for the ship-building on what is stated in the letter of the French soldier has been found on the first day, and was found six guns and a compass and provided thousands of pieces. It examines the Institute of Archaeology in conjunction with the sunken Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities plan to lift the sunken fleet.