Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, Vol. 2 It is right, therefore, that, in writing the lzfe of this extraordinary man, - the correspondence to which his able defence and explanation of the convention gave rise, should not be omitted, or mixed up with his in defatigable and untiring exertions in the field, the camp, and on the sea, which appeared to endue _him almost with the gift of ubiquity; but that the whole case, in which he was implicated, Should be stated fully, and fairly, on ...
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Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, Vol. 2 It is right, therefore, that, in writing the lzfe of this extraordinary man, - the correspondence to which his able defence and explanation of the convention gave rise, should not be omitted, or mixed up with his in defatigable and untiring exertions in the field, the camp, and on the sea, which appeared to endue _him almost with the gift of ubiquity; but that the whole case, in which he was implicated, Should be stated fully, and fairly, on its own grounds, and in his own words. In the first place, then, so early as the 8th of April, 1799, when the destructive siege of Acre was in full Operation, the following proclamation was issued, by order of the Sultan, to the French army, with the view of prevailing on them to leave Egypt, whither, he tells them, they have been brought in ignorance, and where they are exposed to dangers and to perish by war; and it offered all those, of whatever rank or condition, who were willing to withdraw themselves from the perils by which they were menaced, to be supplied with the means of transport and with passports, to convey them to such places as they might wish to be sent to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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