. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. Jerusalem ^ SEA Icon was cut off from France. Says Holland Rose, quotingThiers, this Egyptian expeditionwas the rashest attempt historyrecords. Napoleon was left inEgypt with the Turks gatheringagainst him and his army infectedwith the plague. Nevertheless, witha stupid sort of persistence, hewent on for a time with this Easternscheme. He gained a victory atJaffa, and, being short of provisions,massacred all his prisoners. Thenhe tried to take Acre, where hisown siege artillery, just capturedat sea by the English, was usedag
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. Jerusalem ^ SEA Icon was cut off from France. Says Holland Rose, quotingThiers, this Egyptian expeditionwas the rashest attempt historyrecords. Napoleon was left inEgypt with the Turks gatheringagainst him and his army infectedwith the plague. Nevertheless, witha stupid sort of persistence, hewent on for a time with this Easternscheme. He gained a victory atJaffa, and, being short of provisions,massacred all his prisoners. Thenhe tried to take Acre, where hisown siege artillery, just capturedat sea by the English, was usedagainst him. Returning baffled toEgypt, he gained a brilliant victoryover a Turkish force at Aboukir, and then, conspiracy is too intricate a story for ourdeserting the army of Egypt—it held on space ; it involved a Cromwell-like dispersaluntil 1801, when it capitulated to a British of the Lower House (the Council of Five. A. ^J4x1u force—made his escape back to France(1799), narrowly missing capture by aBritish cruiser off Sicily. Here was muddle and failure enough todiscredit any general—had it been known. Hundred), and in this affair Napoleon losthis nerve. The deputies shouted at himand hustled him, and he seems to have beenvery much frightened. He nearly fainted,stuttered, and could say nothing, but the But the very British cruisers which came situation was saved by his brother Lucien, so near to catching him, helped him by preventing any real understanding of theEgyptian situation from reaching the Frenchpeople. He could make a great flourishover the battle of Aboukir and conceal theshame and loss of Acre. Things were notgoing well \vith France just then. Therehad been military failures at several points who brought in the soldiers and dispersedthe council. This little hitch did not affectthe final success of the scheme. The threeConsuls were installed at the Luxembourgpalace, with two commiss
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