Wilson, Robert Thomas: The British expedition to Egypt: carefully abridged in two parts (London, 1803)

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’ •># >•. IdSs of the British in this affair, Sir R. U il-
» son states at six officers and 2.J3 men ; the
' ike Sf* woun^c^j sixty officers and 11<JO men; the
■»j^4 j missing, three officers and twenty-nine
, . men. In,the English tents, which were
much torn by the enemy’s shot, several
,k „ servants were killed, and numerous sick are
,*A‘ said to have escaped as it were by miracle.
.“•Brass cannon-balls were also used by the
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‘ rrench in this action.
• Sir it. Wilson, in speaking of the taking of
, . , the standard, generally termed that of the
y J
■ J' & Jnvinciblcs, and which he ascribes to Serjeant
Sinclair, in reply to General Regnier, who
urges that these colours belonged to a com-
i-jnsr. pany of Copts, very pertinently asks—How
Copts came to carry a standard on which
tixvJhwas inscribed le passage de la Serivia, le
' ' : Passage du Tagliamento, le Passage de
TIsonzo, le Prise de Gratz, le Pont de
f Lodi.


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• d' This question, Sir R. Wilson thinks, Gcne-
■’ ral Regnier only can explain. But as the
j.i glory of taking this standard has given rise to
• r-: J some counter claim for Antony Lutz, of the
j German regiment, instead of the
42d, or Highlanders, it may not be improper
here to borrow the observations of a contem-
porary writer.
Sir R. Wilson, having stated that Serjeant
Sinclair first took the standard, but, being
ordered forward by an officer, he gave it to a
private who was killed, and whose name is
unkown, the writer alluded to justly expresses

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