Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-29

were sent against the defenses, and on one occasion the town was partly oeeu- pied; but General Duroc, who led the assault, was wounded, and the two hun dred men who had gained an entrance were driven out through the breach.
 Twelve sorties were made by the be- sieged, only to meet repulso. About the middle of May news came that one of the many Mahdis, who have so frequent ly arisen i'll Egypt, had appeared in the Nile valley. Intelligence came also that the Porte and the English government were now at one against the French. Napoleon s guns were not heavy enough, and his forces not sufficiently strong, to capture Acre; aEd on tho 20th of May the siege was raised. The losses of the French in the Syrian campaign had reached nearly Three thpusand men; those of the Turks and the allies, per haps five times that number.
 Napoleon was weak in the matter of retreat. He could not retreat we'll His fallings back were likely to degenerate into panies This fact was exemplified in his withdrawal from Palestine. The march began on tho 20th of May The 22nd found the French at Cesarea. Two days afterwards they reached Jaffa There a pest-house had been established for those who had the plague. Napoleon ordered the Notifications of the town to be blown up; but what should be done with the hospital?
 Man was never in a sadder dilemma. Bonaparte we'll knew that those of his sick soldiers who should bo left behind would be horribly butchered as soon as the Turks should re-enter Jaffa. To take tho infected with him was only to spread the disease. He went with his surgeons and aides into tho plague house, and passed among the dead and dying. Ho struck his boot-tops with his whip as he went along, saying, h few hours the Turks will be here Let all those who havo strength enough rise and como with us. 3' None could arise. | Then it was that, in a hurried eonsulta- tion with his physician Desgenettes, Bonaparto proposed to anticipate with potion of laudanum and q painless exit tho cruel death which he saw to be inevitable. For this proposition he has been condemned by sentimental world against all reason and humanity. His project was just such as a humane man would propose for his own brother un- der the cruel alternative then presented.
 The returning expedition reached i Cairo on the I4th of June. Affairs in Egypt were already in distracted con- 1 M1i i,15 =t, prophet in Bohahireh. The fellahs and Arabs were rallying to his standard. Murad Bey was returning with his forces from Upper Egypt, to form l junction with the Mahdi's rout at the Natron lakes. Meanwhile. q force of about fifteen thousand, commanded by Mustapha Pasha and under conduct of English ships, arrived at Aboukir A division of French, under General Mar mont held Alexandria; but that officer would be unable to keep the city against the gathering forces of the enemy.
 Napoleon hastily marched against the Turks and English at Aboukir Here, on the. 25th of July 1799 with only five thousand mon, he attacked the en- emy. threo times as strong ill numbers. and gained q victory so signal as almost to eounterbalanoe the disaster of the year before, when Brueys's fleet at the same place was annihilated In the ne- gotiation that followed between Bona parte and the English Admiral, the for. mer obtained q copy of tho French Ga- zette, of Frankfort informing him of 1 the condition of affairs Ill Europe, For ten months ho had received virtually no news at all from his own country The French army had to all intents been bloekaded in Egypt and Palestine "Heavens' the General cried out; "my presentiment has been verified. The i fools have lost Italy All the fruits of our victories are gono l must leave EgyptI'
 It was necessary that Napoleon should be secret as well as expeditions He ins formed tho divan of Cairo that he should be absent briefly in the Delta. Afterwards he published bulletin to the army, saying that he was going to France, but would soon be back again. The command should remain with Gen. eral Kleber, who was truly said to have the confidence of the General in chief Berthier and Lannes were to accompany the commander to France. Two frigates, the Muiron and the Garrere. were quick ly prepared, and, on the 23rd of August. a company of about five hundred men went on board with Napoleon.
 By keeping close to the African shore the vessels were enabled to escape de- lection. After twenty-one days the site of Carthage was passed, and the danger was over On the lst of October the ships were driven in at Ajaooio.
 While detained in his native island Napoleon learned of tho disastrous bat tie of Novi, the death of Joubert, and all the recent misfortunes of France On leaving Aiaccio, his ship was fol lowed by two English vessels, and we'll nigh taken; but on the 8th of October he reached the roadway of Frejus, and was safe. Tho enthusiasm of the people