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Theme code Index	1H1H2H2H 3H3H5H1H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, March/Marche
Key/Tonic of
Accidental
Mode
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Peter D. Sumner
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Lincolnshire Collections vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript
Tune and/or Page number	p. 84
Year of publication/Date of MS	1997
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BATTLE OF THE NILE, THE. English, Air or march (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, a march but perhaps also a song air, commemorates Admiral Nelson's 1798 victory over the French fleet under Admiral François-Paul Brueys, anchored in one of the mouths of the Nile river. The battle was fought largely at night, unusual for the time, and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the British. Nelson was made Baron of the Nile as a consequence. It appears in numerous publications and musicians manuscripts on both sides of the Atlantic, dating to the beginning of the 19th century. Printed publications in which it appears include J. Ball's Gentleman's Amusement Book 3 (London, c. 1815, reprinted in 1830), Paff's Gentleman's Amusement No. 1 (New York, 1812), Oliver Shaws' For the Gentlemen (Dedham, Mass., 1807), and Edward Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2 (New York, 1817). The march also appears in the manuscript collections of Dexter Dean (Dedham, Mass., 1800), John Fife (Perthshire, begun in 1780), and Daniel Henry Huntington (Onondaga, N.Y., 1817).

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed source: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 84.

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-'''BATTLE OF THE NILE, THE.'''  English, Air or march (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, perhaps a song air, commemorates Admiral Nelson's 1798 victory over the French fleet under Admiral François-Paul Brueys, anchored in one of the mouths of the Nile river. The battle was fought largely at night, unusual for the time, and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the British. Nelson was made Baron of the Nile as a consequence.
+'''BATTLE OF THE NILE, THE.'''  English, Air or march (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, a march but perhaps also a song air, commemorates Admiral Nelson's 1798 victory over the French fleet under Admiral François-Paul Brueys, anchored in one of the mouths of the Nile river. The battle was fought largely at night, unusual for the time, and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the British. Nelson was made Baron of the Nile as a consequence. It appears in numerous publications and musicians manuscripts on both sides of the Atlantic, dating to the beginning of the 19th century. Printed publications in which it appears include J. Ball's '''Gentleman's Amusement Book 3''' (London, c. 1815, reprinted in 1830), Paff's '''Gentleman's Amusement No. 1''' (New York, 1812), Oliver Shaws' '''For the Gentlemen''' (Dedham, Mass., 1807), and Edward Riley's '''Flute Melodies''', vol. 2 (New York, 1817). The march also appears in the manuscript collections of Dexter Dean (Dedham, Mass., 1800), John Fife (Perthshire, begun in 1780), and Daniel Henry Huntington (Onondaga, N.Y., 1817).
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