Narrative of the British Expedition to Egypt: Carefully Abridged from the History of that Campaign; with a Preliminary View of the Proceedings of the French Previous to the Arrival of the British Forces ... |
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Page xxxi - I stood prepared to support the charges. The courts of my country were open to that mode of trial, which, as an innocent man, he could alone have required, but of which he did not dare to avail himself.
Page xviii - a Colonel in the English army has published a work in England filled with the most atrocious and disgusting calumnies against the French army and its general. The lies it contains have been contradicted by the reception which Colonel Sebastian! experienced. t The publicity of his report was at once a refutation and reparation which the French army had a right to expect...
Page 46 - Buonaparte was not to be diverted from his object by moral considerations ; he persevered, and found an apothecary who (dreading the weight of power, but who since has made an atonement to his mind by unequivocally confessing the fact) consented to become his agent, and to administer poison to the sick.
Page 17 - British was by nature strong ; the right was projected a quarter of a mile, on very high ground, and extended to the large and magnificent ruins of a palace, built in the time of the Romans, within fifty yards of the sea.
Page xxviii - Andreossy, for, conscious of the superior virtue of my cause, I find myself neither aggrieved nor irritated by the language he has used; but that the public may not attribute my silence to a desire of evading further discussion, and thus the shallow mode of contradiction...
Page xxix - French army penetrated; and she will at least hesitate to believe that the same armies should voluntarily ameliorate their conduct in a country more remote, where the atrocities they might commit would be...
Page xxxi - French Ambassador's note might otherwise have made, did I not think it a duty to press some observations on that part of the paragraph which alludes to the direct...
Page 44 - Jaffa by affault, many of the garrifon were put to the fword; but the greater part flying into the mofques, and imploring mercy from their purfuers> •were granted their lives; and let it be well remembered, that an exafperated army in the moment of revenge, when the laws of war juftified the rage, yet heard the voice of pity, received its impreflion, and proudly refufed to be any longer the executioners of an unrefifting enemy.
Page 10 - The 42d regiment had landed and formed as on a parade, then mounted the position, notwithstanding the fire from two pieces of cannon and a battalion of infantry. The moment they gained the height, two hundred French dragoons attempted to charge them, but were as quickly repulsed.
Page 4 - ... depended upon could be procured, and the best draught from which information could be formed, and which was distributed to the generals, proved ridiculously incorrect. Sir Sidney Smith was the only officer who knew at all the locality of the coast, and he certainly, as far as he had seen, afforded perfect information. But he had never been in the interior of the country. " Captain Boyle, at Minorca, had given an idea of the disposition of the French, which, considering the caution it was necessary...