Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . mons ! During all the first half of the century there had beena full recognition of the might of England, and of herability to punish outrage on Christians in Turkey, whichhad kept the worst spirits of evil afraid to show theirheads. Britains power had been exhibited so strikinglyunder the eyes of Egypt and Syria, that in the Arabsproverbial talk they held it to be more than merelyof this world. At Aboukir Bay under Nelson, atAlexandria under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, at Acre underSir Sydney Smith, the Moslems had followed the courseof British
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . mons ! During all the first half of the century there had beena full recognition of the might of England, and of herability to punish outrage on Christians in Turkey, whichhad kept the worst spirits of evil afraid to show theirheads. Britains power had been exhibited so strikinglyunder the eyes of Egypt and Syria, that in the Arabsproverbial talk they held it to be more than merelyof this world. At Aboukir Bay under Nelson, atAlexandria under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, at Acre underSir Sydney Smith, the Moslems had followed the courseof British victories, and they noted the further course ofthe Napoleonic war with wonder, and epitomised theirconclusions by saying that Apolyon (the name they gaveNapoleon) had overcome every nation, but Englandhad destroyed him. The traditions of the previousgeneration had prepared young and old in 1837 tosee Ibrahim Pasha defeated at a stroke, and whenSir Robert Napier arrived at Acre, exploded the powdermagazine in an hour, and then with his marines drove. ;r. //. // HALT FOR THE NIGHT, ZAHLE. 78 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. out the Egyptian army, all was looked upon as matterof course. This confirmed the earlier estimate ofEnglands masterfulness, so that when she with herallies took up the cause of Turkey and declared waragainst Russia in 1854, the expectation of the Maho-medan world was that every defence of our enemy wouldat once vanish before the army and navy. Now, our long-retarded and still incomplete triumph had marred ourprestige, and it was easy to see that we should have tofight tor it all again in the East. The French hadescaped commissariat disasters in the Crimea, and theirregiments had figured in telling manner at the end of thelong-continued Inkerman battle, so such respect as wasstill entertained by the bulk of Mahomedans for Christianforces was transferred to our rivals, whose prowess hadnot before been so fully recognised by them. Themassacre in the Lebanon was t
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