The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-05-11
ANCIENT HISTORY
Napoleoa Gave Egypt Some
Real War. But In Was
His Ruin.
KEBER BECAME GOV.

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Correspondence Of The Caucasian
Enterprise.
Near the close OF the seventeenth
century the French gave Egyps souas-
thing TO do in the way oy var tAke
many oy the ancient vars. no real
reason wuz given. though some rwa-
son must hev existed. The Arabs
took part in this short var. On the
5th ov July Alexandria gux taken an
fortified: also Rosetta The French
fleet wuz moored in front ov Aiexan-
dria au' garrisons were left In Alex
andria an General kleber wux made
governor. The French army wux
landed, numberin' something over
10000 soldiers. an hit marched so-
ward Cairo. in five divisions The
Egyptian commander. Murad Bey.
had about 10000 infantry, awi Mann
alukes. an several thousand cavalry
an forty cannon. for weapons ov war
had now become somewhat modern.
The well directed fire ov the French
proved very destructive TO the Egyp-
tians an the battle wound up when
the French made a terrific assault
with fixed bayonets. The French
els owned by the Egyptians, an about
5000 Egyptian dead lay upon the
| battlefield. The next day Napoleon
/ entered Cairo. He established a gov
ernment, consisting ov seven men,
| bers. Then he summoned the Egyp-
tian officials who promised loyalty to
France. Napoleon agreed 10 respect
the Mohometan religion an' to re-
spect property rights. Napoleon then
started out to capture or kill the row
/ ing bands ov Mamelukes who had
scattered when the French army ap-
preached Cairo. When the French
general returned to Cairo he learned
that the English feet had attacked
that ov the French at Aboukir. This
wuZ serious news for Napoleon. He
saw at once that hiz communication
with France wuz liable to be cut OF
an that England might prevent hiz
return. starve hiz army, in fact.
sore because Napoleon had gotten
Egypt, threatened to go TO war with
France. But Napoleon didn't lose hiz
nerve. He established a government
for Egypt along French lines. Things
becoming quiet, Napoleon marched
out ov Cairo on February 81, 1893.
for Tyria. He captured Ei-Airish. a
fort in the desert, then Jaffa, Naplons
an Zeta, awl Syrian towns. He Sc
cured a good supply ov provisions an
wuz ready to capture st. Jean d'Acre.
He had an army oy about $4,000
men. The English feet had arrived
at the town above named an gave
aid to the garrison in the shape ov
ammunition, awlso hit later landed
several hundred men an many can
non. This enabled the Turks to make
a strong resistance. Napoleon wuz
finally compelled to give up efforts to
capture the city on account ov a lack
ov ammunition, probably. The French
returned to Cairo, an eighteen days
march. A Turkish feet soon landed
about 1900 men at Aboukir an
they took the fort there. The news
soon reached Napoleon an he got
busy. He met the Turks between
Alexandria an Aboukir an gave them
bat tie. The Turkish General. Mus
tapha Pacha. an awl his soldiers an
cannon were captured. an two thou
sand Turks were killed I'm battle. This
compelled another division ov the
Turkish army which had taken refuge
in the fort at Aboukir TO get In a bad
way, an Napoleon demanded its un-i
on August the End Thus Napoleon
turned defeat into victory, for be-
tween England an Turkey hiz
chances had appeared slim for some
weeks. BY this victory hiz hold upon
Egypt seemed secure for a time at
least But Napoleon Bonaparte wuz
just like other people; he could hg-
ger powerfully. but sometimes ng-
gers would git tangled. About this
time he happened to remember that
he had gained considerable territory
In Italy short time before. Leavin'
General Kleber in command In Egypt
he started for Italy. Napoleon had
probably made a serious mistake; he
wuz land poor"-had too much ter
ritory at any rate. In November.
1893. the Turks attempted to land a
force in Egypt, but Kleber managed