This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...as I could go on foot; but was very soon forced by the cannon-shot to retreat. Our position in front was along a line drawn from the lake Aboukir on the left, to the sea on our right. From the lake is a flat for about five hundred yards; then a rising ground for about a mile; then a valley of about six hundred ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...as I could go on foot; but was very soon forced by the cannon-shot to retreat. Our position in front was along a line drawn from the lake Aboukir on the left, to the sea on our right. From the lake is a flat for about five hundred yards; then a rising ground for about a mile; then a valley of about six hundred yards; then a rising ground quite to the sea. The scope and jet of this attack was to cut off all our reserve, encamped from the centre to the right..., They had offered a Louis-d'or per man to any thousand who would undertake to turn our right, and take the battery which defended it. Bonaparte's invincible legion, consisting of nine hundred men, volunteered for this service. At the same time that these should turn our right, the main body of the French army was to break our line in the centre, turn to the left, and envelope our reserve. At the moment this was executed, the French cavalry, fifteen hundred in number, were to charge the body so enveloped, and cut them to pieces. The nine hundred of Bonaparte's invincible legion succeeded in turning our right between the walls of a large ruin and our battery. They stormed the battery three times--and were three times exterminated to a man! Our reserve, the forty-second and twenty-eighth, finding the enemy in their rear, faced about and charged them with the bayonet, and drove them backward step by step into the inclosure of the ruin. Six hundred and fifty of these invincibles were already extended upon the ground: the remaining two hundred and fifty called for quarter and obtained it. Not a man of them returned!--this was a business of twenty minutes. At the time this was doing, the main body of the French army in a heavy column, broke through our line into the valley, and forced along the...
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