National Maritime Museum: Destruction of L’Orient

National Maritime Museum: Destruction of L’Orient, painted by George Arnald. “The Orient was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, famous for her role as flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798, and for her spectacular destruction that day when her magazines detonated. The event was commemorated by numerous paintings and poems.”

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