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

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a body of near 400

which continued till perceiving

Indeed, as a grand attack

turn ; but instantly charging them
Achmet’
ing first into the hostile Arab ranks, he was
shot. His Mamelukes, seeing his catastrophe
made a halt ;
alarmed at having killed a Bey, for which
they feared the vengeance of the rest, return-
ed into Alexandria. And finally, as it was
found that the post at Arab’;

And finally, as it was
s Bower was not
tenable without artillery, the British Bedouins
.were withdrawn.

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; while the opposite parity,

On the 22d, Captain Chollet was ordered
to patrol through the desert to Arab’s Tower,
at the head of fifty Bedouins ; then to esta-
blish a post to prevent the Arabs in the
Trench interest from carrying provisions to
Alexandria/ •
On the day following, a body of near 400'
of these Arabs was discovered with a convoy
of 7'00 sheep. Captain Chollet, it is observed,
could not prevent his small party from at-
tacking them, which continued till perceiving
that the Arab Chief had detached a corps to
take them in the rear ; but, as the Captain
was not able to cut off either of these de-
tachments, he was compelled to witness the
entrance of this valuable convoy into Alex-
andria, after having one man killed and five
wounded of the Arabs under his com-
mand.
Soon after, it appears that Achmet Bey ar-
rived at Arab’s Tower with about 100 Mame-
lukes, and were so fortunate as to discover
the very same body of Arabs on their re-
, and
s horse being the swiftest, arid rush-

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