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>hello Alberto > >as far as i remember >we even don't know the effective ships crew as most of >the ship's records were lost with the ships >we only have partial reports from toulon departure but >nothing during the campaign > >there were sicks, there were detached party >but some get back to the ships before the fight >i don't think there are records about that, only guess >;-) > >it seems that the overall casualties were lower than >the first estimation (even for l'Orient) >a few years ago, a french historian in Toulon was >looking about L'Orient crew member's names and found >lot off them in other crew's list after aboukir >but i don't have his final result > >the next week i could check back my notes about >Aboukir (i've wargamed it before) and the book from >E.Battesti > >>Hello! >>As you probably have noticed, I’m quite interested in >>French naval history, which I found (I’m from Rome) >>even more difficult to study than the British one. >>Today I was reading Thomazi’s Les Marins de Napoléon, >>in particular the part on Aboukir, and I wondered if >>it is known the effective number of man available to >>fight on the French vessels (since a lot were still on >>land). Do you know more? >>Thank you, >> >>Alberto de Sanctis

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