Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte in That Country; And Published Under His Immediate Patronage Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ... An ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF EGYPT. Distinguished as it was by extraordinary enterprize and atchievment, the war which followed the dissolution of monarchy in France, and between the present writing and the termination of which only a few months have passed, produced nothing the history of which will be read with stronger interest than the invasion of Egypt/ The movements of hostile armies, by the scene of activity they display, the hopes and fears by which they are attended, and of which they make partakers those most of all indifferent to the issue, seldom fail to engage the attention of the mind, and as seldom to instruct the soldier, the statesman, and the philosopher; but, if these are characteristics of all military expeditions, those which more adequately distinguish this still remain unnoticed. The circumstances under which it was planned, the country to which it was sent, the General by whom it w as led, the manVol. i. c ner in which it was performed, the considerations and consequences it involved, all contribute to place it among the most striking events, not of one, two, or three nations only, but of the human world. The book of Travels to which this memoir is prefixed, which sprung from this very expedition, and which details a part of its circumstances, will naturally excite a wish to see the whole; to see at once its motives, its features, its commencement, its operations, its successes, its reverses, its conclusion; and to draw together these particulars, to arrange the scattered members, and to give the subject a form commodious for examination, is what, with the utmost brevity of manner, it is here proposed to attempt. I. A few words will call to mind that maritime trade with Asia, and countries similarly abundant,...