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François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers
Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys (February 12, 1753 – August 1, 1798) was the French commander in the Battle of the Nile, in which the French Revolutionary Navy was defeated by Royal Navy forces under Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British victory helped to ensure their naval supremacy throughout the Napoleonic Wars. He was also a Freemason in the "La Bonne Foi" lodge at Montauban.
Life.
Life Pre-Revolution.
Brueys was born to
, English cartographer, architect (b. 1721)
- June 29 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1723)
- July 17 – Henry Joy McCracken, Irish republican
- July 21 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
- August 1 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- August 11 – Joshua Clayton, American politician (b. 1744)
- August 18 – John Lewis