of the fleet: Blanquet du Chayla led the vanguard; Villeneuve, the rearguard; Decrès, the light squadron. Dumanoir boarded the ship Dubois and was in charge of the direction of the convoy attached to the army. On 1 July 1798, the French army arrived in front of Alexandria without seeing a single enemy sail. The landings took place immediately, and the troops marched on Alexandria taken the next day. Bonaparte appointed Dumanoir commander of the port. Vice-Admiral Brueys anchored his fleet north-east of Alexandria as close as possible to the islet of Abukir, protected by a battery. The English admiral Nelson arrived on 1 August 1798 in front of Abukir, where the tricolour flag was flying. Brueys believed so little on the return of the English that he had not sent any of his frigates to cross the sea to signal the appearance of the enemy. He was very surprised to see them arrive. Nothing was ready for a battle, the boats and part of the crews were ashore. The Battle of the Nile lasted two days, from 1 to 2 August 1798, and the ensuing disaster dealt a terrible blow to the esteem and power of the French navy. On 5 August of the following year, Bonaparte, who had understood that he was needed in Paris and that he would be well received there, ordered Dumanoir and Rear Admiral Gantheaume - but without putting them in his confidence - to speed up supplies to the two old Venetian frigates, Muiron and Corrèze, already armed and equipped, and to give him notice of the movements of the English squadron. On 21 August 1799, Bonaparte arrived in Alexandria. On the 22nd he boarded the Muiron commanded by Larue and on the 23rd he set sail. The Muiron carried General Bonaparte, Rear Admiral Gantheaume, Berthier, Andréossy, Monge, Berthollet, Denon, de Lavalette and de Bourienne. Dumanoir commanded the Corrèze which had taken Lannes, Murat, de Marmont and Parceval-Grandmaison on board. On 8 October 1799, Bonaparte disembarked at Fréjus. French Consulate The coup of 18 Brumaire marked the end of the Directory and the French Revolution and the beginning of the Consulate. On this occasion, Dumanoir received a sword as a national reward for his participation, and a few months later, at the age of twenty-nine, he was raised to the rank of Counter admiral in 1799. During the year IX (September 1800 to September