. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . h ever brace the French nature to the utmost tensionof daring and endurance. Thus they advanced in closeformation towards the intrenched camp of the divisions on the left at once rushed at its earthworks,silenced its feeble artillery, and slaughtered the fellahininside. But the other divisions, now ranged in squares, whilegazing at this exploit, were assailed by the out the haze of the mirage, or from behind theridges of sand and the scrub of the water-melon plantsthat dotted the
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . h ever brace the French nature to the utmost tensionof daring and endurance. Thus they advanced in closeformation towards the intrenched camp of the divisions on the left at once rushed at its earthworks,silenced its feeble artillery, and slaughtered the fellahininside. But the other divisions, now ranged in squares, whilegazing at this exploit, were assailed by the out the haze of the mirage, or from behind theridges of sand and the scrub of the water-melon plantsthat dotted the plain, some 10,000 of these superb horse-men suddenly appeared and rushed at the squares com-manded by Desaix and Reynier. Their richly caparisonedchargers, their waving plumes, their wild battle-cries, andtheir marvellous skill with carbine and sword, lent pictu-resqueness and terror to the charge. Musketry and grape-shot mowed down their front coursers in ghastly swaths;but the living mass swept on, wellnigh overwhelming thefronts of the squares, and then, swerving aside, poured. I C/D U 5 VIII EGYPT 176 through the deadly funnel between. Decimated herealso by the steady fire of the French files, and by the dis-charges of the rear face, they fell away exhausted, leavingheaps of dead and dying on the fronts of the squares, andin their very midst a score of their choicest cavaliers,whose bravery and horsemanship had carried them to cer-tain death amidst the bayonets. The French now assumedthe offensive, and Desaixs division, threatening to cut offthe retreat of Murads horsemen, led that wary chief todraw off his shattered squadrons ; while his rival Ibrahimsought safety in flight towards Cairo and the isthmus ofSuez, but with ranks frightfully thinned by the Frenchfire and the waters of the Nile. Such was the battle ofthe Pyramids, which gained a colony at the cost of somethirty killed and about ten times as many wounded : ofthe killed about twenty fell victims to the cross fir
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