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the privilege." Their officers, too, expressed horror and disgust; and even generals of such celebrity as Murat and Lannes threw their hats on the sand, and trode on their cockades. It required all Buonaparte's authority to maintain order, so much were the French disgusted with the commencement of the expedition. moncler jackets To add to their embarrassment, the enemy be are neither more nor less than intrepid robbers, sent us back, as soon as they had read it, thirty of our people whom they had made prisoners, with an offer of their services against the Mameloucs."Louis Buonaparte ; Intercepted, Correspondence, part i. p. . " It would be difficult to describe the disgust, the discontent, the melancholy, the despair of the army, on its first arrival in Egypt : Napoleon himself saw two dragoons throw themselves into the Nile.Onte day, losing his temper, he rushed among a group moncler men jackets of discontented generals, and addressing himself to the tallest, ' You have held mutinous language,' said he, with vehemence ; ' it is not your being six feet high that should save you from being shot in a couple of hours.'"Las Cases, life of navoleon.' i. gan to appear around them. Mamelukes and Arabs, concealed behind the hillocks of sand, interrupted their march at every opportunity, and woe to the soldier who straggled from the ranks, were it but fifty yards ! Some of these horsemen were sure to dash at him, slay him on the spot, and make moncler women jackets off before a musket could be discharged at them. At length, however, the audacity of these incursions was checked by a skirmish of some little importance near a place called Chebreis, in which the French asserted their military superiority An encounter also took place on the river, between the French flotilla and a number of armed vessels belonging to the Mamelukes. Victory first inclined to the latter, but at length determined in favour of the French, who took, however, only a single galliot. Mean while, the French were obliged to march with the utmost precaution. The whole plain was now covered with Mamelukes, mounted on the finest Moncler Vest Arabian horses, and armed with pistols, carabines, and blunderbusses, of the best English workmanshiptheir plumed turbans waving in the air, and their rich dresses and arms glittering in the sun. Entertaining a high contempt for the French force, as consisting almost entirely of infantry, this splendid barbaric chivalry watched every opportunity for charging them, .nor did Frank869111111


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a single straggler escape the unrelenting edge of their sabres. Their charge was almost as swift as the wind, and as their severe bits enabled them to Jomini, t. x. p. . by . CAIRO. halt, or wheel their horses at full gallop, their retreat was as rapid as their advance. Even the practised veterans of Italy were at first embarrassed moncler jackets by this new mode of fighting, and lost several men ; especially when fatigue caused any one to fall out of the ranks, in which case his fate became certain. But they were soon reconciled to fighting the Mamelukes, when they discovered that each of these horsemen carried about him his fortune, and that it not uncommonly amounted to considerable sums in gold. During these alarms, the French love of the ludicrous was not abated by the fatigues or dangers moncler men jackets of the journeys. The Savans had been supplied with asses, the beasts of burden easiest attained in Egypt, to transport their persons and philosophical apparatus. The general had given orders to attend to their personal safety, which were of course obeyed. But as these civilians had little importance in the eyes of the military, loud shouts of laughter used to burst from the ranks, while forming to receive the Mamelukes, as the general of division moncler women jackets called out, with military precision, " Let the asses and the Savans enter within the square." The soldiers also amused themselves, by calling the asses demisavans. In times of discontent, these unlucky servants of science had their full share of the soldiers' reproaches, who imagined, that this unpopular expedition had been undertaken to gratify their passion for researches, in which the military took very slender interest. Las Cases, xife of napoleon. £. Under such circumstances, it may be doubted whether even the literati themselves were greatly delighted, when, after fourteen days of such marches as we have described, they arrived, indeed, within six leagues of Cairo, and beheld at a distance the celebrated Moncler T-shirts Pyramids, but learned, at the same time, that Murad Bey, with twentytwo of his brethren, at the head of their Mamelukes, had formed an intrenched camp at a place called Fmbabeh, with the purpose of covering Cairo, and giving battle to the French. On the st of July, as the French continued to advance, they saw their enemy in the field, and in full force. A splendid line of cavalry, under Murad and the other beys, displayed the whole strength of the Mamelukes Frank869111111
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