Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-29


 fore his career was half expired. he con- eeded tho dominion of the ocean to his great enemy. Ever after the Egyptian campaign, his endeavor looked more and more to the creation of a Continen- tai power which should connteryail British supremacy on the deep. The re- suit to him of the battle of the Nile was in every way disastrous. The effect of it was calculated to inspire distrust ill France encourage the Coalition, and to reanimate the Mame1ukes.
 Complaints broke out in the French army. Though victory came, depriya- tion came also. The soldiers were seorohed on the blistering plains, and had little to eat but watermelons Nevertheless, Napoleon went steadily on with his scheme.
 On the 22nd of October, at q precon- eerted signal, Cairo broke into insurree- tion. For while tho French occupancy wax endangered; but the revolt was suppressed, and terrible vengeance was wrecked on its authors. Meanwhile, Napoleon conceived the project of mak- ing d campaign into Syria, and attack ing the English strongholds of Jaffa and St. Jean d'Acre Tho situation was this: France aud Turkey were nominal ly at peace Napoleon had overthrown the Sultan E rebellious beys in Egypt Therefore he was q friend of the Sul. tan; and he of him. But the thick brain of the Porte at length cleared sufficient. ly to see that Murad aid lbrahim Beys were not half so dangerous as the for eign lion chat now sat an hls launches at Cairo, licking his mouth for moro. The Sultan perceived that the French must be expelled Napoleon had seen that this conclusion would be reached. and that q Turkish army might bo OK. pected to como against him out of Syria. Therefore ho would better preoccupy Syria. Moreover, tho hated English had sssS tho coast of tho Eastern MediteTra- m The Turkish army might not be . xpected during tho winter; but tho English were there already. Hence the Syrian expedition.
 Napoleon divided his forces. He loft about twelve thousand mon to occupy Egypt, and with like number set out, on the 1lth of February, I799, in tho di- rection of Suez and Palestine. The march was accompanied with great hardships. At the wells of Messoudiah the French found water; and soon aft erwards the green and fertile plains of Syria arose to view El=Arish was taken on the 17th of February. On the 1st of March, Napoleon slept at the convent of Ramleh He passed within few miles of Jerusalem, and then made his way to Jaffa. A siege was immediately begun, and on the 9th of March tho place was taken, with pillage and mas saore. About four thousand of the pris- oners were after three days of delibera- tion, set in lines on the seashore and shot. This was dor 8 under the terrible necessity of the french to preserve themselves ill the enemy's country.
 Next came the horror of tho plague. With the fall of Jaffa, the march was begun against St. Jean d'Acre. The Arabs now made common cause with the Turks. Lannes. pursuing tho wild men into the passes of Nablous, was ambushed, and lost considerable num- boA bA HULL OH bHb 10tu oA 4hulOh bho French arrived at Acre, and found that she Pasha Djezzar had cut off the head of Napoleon's envoy, and thrown his body into the sea. The English under Sir Sidney Smith, and the Turks, held the town.
 Acre was besieged until the 4th of Maye When the French ammunition be- garlko fail. General Caffarelli. one of Napoleon 8 favorite officers, already one- legged from heroism, died from the ann pntation of an arm. On the 10th of the month the French made an assault, and gained the trenches, During the sixty