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

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the army for its distinguishing con

aid-de-camps, positively entered
very gate of Giza,
British ; who, as Sir R
being only an interior guard, and
prisoners, could not oppose their
I „ This glaring
body of the 'enemy to pass not only along
the front of the army, but also between its
posts ; nothwithstanding the capitulation,
he remarked, justly deserved severe censure ;
nevertheless, the urbanity of General Hut-
chinson would not allow him to complain to
the Captain Pacha against a brave and active
officer, who was certainly responsible for the
oversight, but by no means culpable in the
intention.
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Orders were next issued by the general,
thanking
duct ; and it is generally admitted that more
resolution, patience, spirit, and perseverance,
had never been manifested by any troops.
The duty both of the officers and privates
had been extremely severe ; the former, on
the march, being compelled to carry their
own baggage ; and yet all parties bore every
hardship without complaint, and without being
guilty of the least excess, though four months
of>their pay were in arrears, and blindness
and the flux had made considerable ravages
amongst them. And, with respect to the

A singular circumstance occurred in the
night of July 4th, viz. one hundred of the
dromedary-corps and one of General Menou’s
in at the
then occupied by the
_. Wilson observes,
, in fact,
entrance,
neglect, which had allowed a