Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-04-09
Expedition to India.
FRANKFORT, Ger Jan. Ia.

4 The desire to humiliare England animates
all minds. The German politicians are par.
tlcuiarly erapicyed OH the means of attack
Ing her n the indies, and striking her to the
heart nc alliance OF Russia, France and
persia appears to them adapted to accelerate
this project. The public papers of Germa-
ny are therefore flied with plans relative to
this expedition. Among chose which have
appearo1, one published in the Journal
de Mannheim has attracted considerable no.
tice.
( The author supposes that the expedition
will be made not only with the consent OF the
kingao Persia, but that that monarch will fur
nish the armies that shall pass through his
territory with every thing necessary for their
subsistence. He chooses Astracan for the
place Of rendezvous of the French and Rus
sian armies and he adds The Russian
army will not only be sufficiently provided
with artillery and ammunition but the Rus
sian generals Will take care to have them in
readiness for the French army-which to f;,-
ciiitate is march, will take with it neihter
cannon, nor ammuhiuon, nor horses, The
Russian army will be easily collected at As
tracan but it will be necessary to shorten
and facilitate the march of the French
army. It has too points. of departure, and
consequently two routes 10 follow, in order
to arrive at Astracan ore from the
Duchy of Warsaw, and the other through
-Dalmatia.
By tie former the army will proceed in
right line to Lazarum making march of
abont AGO leagues, Tor ESQ German miles. y
4 acre it will embark on the Wolga for Astra.
can. from which Larozum is distant about | 90
leagues. Ihen the French army will have
a tourney of $50 leagues to reach Astracan
100 of which will be water; a march which
Will employ two months and half or three
months,
By the second route that is to say from
DaImatia, the Freuch army Will make
march of 100 leagues, to reach the Danube
at place proper to embark 1t will SO down
the DaIube to its mouth, on board vessels
brought from the Black Sea. When arrived
at the Black Sea, it will pursue its course and
passing by the strut of the Crimea will land
at kangaroo on the sea of Azow. From Tan
garoe it will march to the Don, which it will
pass near the Plata -Isbiana, and proceed to
Zarozunl where it will embark for Astracan
AS it is only ABOUT l4o leagues from kangaroo
to Zaroznn, it appears thar by this route the
French army has only about $40 or 25oleagues
to march by land in going from Dalmatia to
Astracan.
The time which will be employed by the
French in this march may be estimated at
about six weeks that is about half the time
of the former, Having joined at 4Astracan
the two Franko-Rnssian armies, with their
artillery, ammunition, horses, &c. will en-
bark in vessels put in requisition on the Cas-
plan sea, will traverse that sea, and arrive at
Astrabat, in Persia, after march Of ten or
twelve days from Astrabat the two armies !
furnished with provisions by the king of Per-
STA, will pursue their route through that king
dom for the Indies, where they will arrive af- |
ter march Of seven or eight weeks. It
results from this plan, that a French army Of
80 900 men, setting out from Dalmatia, and
Russian army of 10000 men, which may
likewise be joined by a Persian army, may
arrive in the Indies at the end OF five months
at the latest
IJournal dc rEmhire, jan. l9.
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