1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. "I was between the devil and the deep sea." The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combined Franco-Spanish fleet only gets larger and larger. Bruix almost pulled it off. He arrived at Cadiz. Admiral Lord Keith was blockading with 15 ships of the line. Bruix had 25 ...