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

that, as

the

The British ad* .

lorsican Rangers, the Queen’s,
The main body contained

were joined by Mui
Prince of Fez, who came from
The character of this singular
the Mahometans was made up
ike another

were about 4000
strong, and had twenty pieces of cannon;
and they now moved with more order than
before

Here Sir Robert Wilson' observe
one of the flats sunk in crossing the Nile,
and several Albanians were drowned
rest of them positively refused to embark,
till the 89th set them the example.
On the 5th of May, the Turks, preceding
the main army, marched in two columns ; one
passing along the Nile,- and the other along
the bank of Lake Edko.
vanced guard • consisted of the 11th Light*
Dragoons, the
and the 58th.
the brigades of Generals Doyle and Craddock.
The Turks, under Caia Bey

person he was invulnerable.
foretold nothing but success to the English,
and always remained their firm friend. ‘
But to return to the position of the army.
It halted behind the rear of the canal of De-
• * - i J . ;•
foute, from three in the afternoon until six .
the' next morning : when, as was thought, the
Turks were too far advanced, they were aided
by the march of the British. General Flu
chinson
army of the Grand Vizir, and hearing that

also expecting the arrival of the

and without firing oft' their muskets.
On the march they were joined by Muley
Mohammed,
Morad Bey.
man among
o
of a saint and a warrior ;
Achilles, he possessed a persuasion that in his
lie agreeably