History of the British Expedition to Egypt;: To which is Subjoined, a Sketch of the Present State of that Country and Its Means of Defence. Illustrated with Maps, and a Portrait of Sir Ralph AbercrombyC. Roworth, Bell Yard, Fleet Street, and sold by T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall., 1802 - 354 pages |
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... Aboukir Buonaparte destroyed twenty thousand Turks , six thousand being killed , two thousand taken , and the re- mainder drowned , whilst there were but eight thousand alto- gether , as the reader will afterwards find . Such a ...
... Aboukir Buonaparte destroyed twenty thousand Turks , six thousand being killed , two thousand taken , and the re- mainder drowned , whilst there were but eight thousand alto- gether , as the reader will afterwards find . Such a ...
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... Aboukir Bay ; the men of war riding exactly where the battle of the Nile was fought , for the Foudroyant chafed her cables against the L'Orient's wreck , whose anchor she afterwards fished up . The melancholy intelligence of the death ...
... Aboukir Bay ; the men of war riding exactly where the battle of the Nile was fought , for the Foudroyant chafed her cables against the L'Orient's wreck , whose anchor she afterwards fished up . The melancholy intelligence of the death ...
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... Aboukir could discharge . The quantity of shot and shells , and as the boats approached , the shower of grape and musquetry , seemed so to plough the surface of the water , that nothing on it could live : for a moment it even checked ...
... Aboukir could discharge . The quantity of shot and shells , and as the boats approached , the shower of grape and musquetry , seemed so to plough the surface of the water , that nothing on it could live : for a moment it even checked ...
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... Aboukir Bay was the only port where the debarkation could have been made on the Egyptian coast , for there only could the shipping remain in safety ; and it was absolutely necessary that the communication with the fleet , even daily ...
... Aboukir Bay was the only port where the debarkation could have been made on the Egyptian coast , for there only could the shipping remain in safety ; and it was absolutely necessary that the communication with the fleet , even daily ...
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... Aboukir , or exposed themselves to be taken in the rear , and have their retreat cut off ; had only gun - boats forced in on the morning of the landing , the French would have suffered most severely from their fire in crossing the plain ...
... Aboukir , or exposed themselves to be taken in the rear , and have their retreat cut off ; had only gun - boats forced in on the morning of the landing , the French would have suffered most severely from their fire in crossing the plain ...
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Aboukir advanced guard aid de camp Alexandria amongst Arabs arrived artillery attack battalion batteries Belliard boats Bonaparte brigade British Cairo camels camp capitulation Captain Pacha cavalry Colonel Stuart column Commander in Chief conduct considerable corps Cossir Desert detachment dgerms dispatches ditto dragoons duty Egypt embarked encamped enemy enemy's English exertions fire flank force formed France French army front garrison Giza Grand Vizir gun-boats guns head quarters honour horses hundred Hutchinson infantry JOHN HELY HUTCHINSON killed lake landed Lord Keith Major General Coote Mamelukes Marabou Menou ment miles morning musquetry neral night Nile o'clock obliged officers passed picquets pieces of cannon plague position pounders quarter master rear redoubt regiment Regnier Rhamanieh Rosetta sent ships shore shot Sir Ralph Abercrombie Sir Sydney Smith soldiers surrender thousand tion troops Turkish Turks Upper Egypt vessels whilst whole wounded yards