On this day in 1798, the British fleet arrived off Egypt and discovered Brueys's dispositions, and Nelson ordered an immediate attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6-CsdO4LY Fotheringay

The Young Tradition sang The Banks of the Nile in 1968 on their last LP, Galleries. Heather Wood added in the Mudcat Café thread Origins: Banks of the Nile: “Sandy Denny learned it from us but put her own inimitable stamp on it.”