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

submit with so much ease, as they consisted
of 560 men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
with 100 picked men of the dromedary
Corps ; and one four-pounder, 550 camels,
with their Arab drivers, became the booty of
the English.
Sir R. Wilson observes, that the English,
at that period, were the first Europeans that
ever found protection among the savages of
that desert. Many of the English infantry,
he acknowledges, would have sunk down and
O'
perished on their march, had it not been for
their assistance.
It ought to have been observed, that the
French troops, forming this convoy, were so
impatient when they heard the word France
mentioned, that their commandant was obliged
to use all his influence to appease them. In
fact, after the battle of the 21st, the French
troops in general, were not well-affected, and
consequently very far from a state of neces-
sary subordination.
General Regnier, in his usual mode of ex-
aggerating, represents this convoy as being
no more in number than 450, attacked by
3000 ; and, on that account, he makes a
merit of their being able to treat for the pre-
servation of its arms to France.
Before the officers of this convoy embark-
ed, on their return, they were allowed to
sell 100 camels, their own private property,
for 3001.
Very soon after this successful capture, on
the part of the English, Isaac Bey arrived