Textbook in PDF format Napoleon's Lost Fleet: Bonaparte, Nelson, and the Battle of the Nile by Laura Foreman and Ellen Blue Phillips tells the story of Lord Nelson's pursuit of Napoleon during the French general's attempt to capture Egypt. The book describes the Battle of the Nile in 1798, which was one of the key events of the Napoleonic Wars. The victory was won by the British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson, which stopped Napoleon's attempt to conquer Egypt. In addition, the book tells about the underwater archaeological expedition of French explorer Frank Goddio and his team to the site of the sinking of Napoleon's flagship Orient and two other French ships, the Serieuse and Artemise. The book is illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, images of the expedition, portraits, landscape paintings and battle maps