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They went along none the less merrily for the sound to Djezzar Pacha's garden, where the old Turk sate on his carpet, beneath the shade of a great terebinth tree, listening to the interpreter, who made known to him the meaning of the eager speeches of Sir Sidney Smith and the colonel of the marines.
It is worthy of notice, that when the celebrated chief now named retreated from before Acre, the tyrant Djezzar Pasha, to avenge himself on the Franks, inflicted a severe punishment on the Jewish and Christian inhabitants of Saphet.
The combat was a desperate one. The swords of the officers, the cutlasses of the sailors, the pikes of the Turks, clashed against the bayonets of the French. Soon an important ally arrived. The news had speedily reached Djezzar that Sir Sidney and his officers were themselves defending the breach.
Whatever accuracy there may be in these reminiscences, there is no doubt that Napoleon frequently remarked, in reference to Acre, "The fate of the East is in that place." Nor was this observation made at random; for had the French subdued Djezzar, and buried his army in the ruins of the fortress, the whole of Palestine and Syria would have submitted to their dominion.
Djezzar was already at Acre, and some Turkish gun-boats, under Hassan Bey, had also been despatched thither towards the end of February. The welcome order was issued for the Tigre to sail on the 1st of March.
He offered Djezzar his friendship, sought his in return, and gave him the most consolatory assurances of the safety of his dominions. He promised to support him against the Grand Seignior, at the very moment when he was assuring the Egyptians that he would support the Grand Seignior against the beys.
The Egyptian Institute Festival of the birth of Mahomet Bonapartes prudent respect for the Mahometan religion His Turkish dress Djezzar, the Pasha of Acre Thoughts of a campaign in Germany Want of news from France Bonaparte and Madame Fours The Egyptian fortune-teller, M. Berthollet, and the Sheik El Bekri The air "Marlbrook" Insurrection in Cairo Death of General Dupuis Death of Sulkowsky The insurrection quelled Nocturnal executions Destruction of a tribe of Arabs Convoy of sick and wounded Massacre of the French in Sicily projected expedition to Syria Letter to Tippoo Saib.
Without mentioning local revolts which produced only short-lived struggles and trifling changes of administration, such as that of Djezzar Pacha, who refused to pay tribute because he thought himself impregnable in his citadel of Saint-Jean-d'Acre, or that of Passevend-Oglou Pacha, who planted himself on the walls of Widdin as defender of the Janissaries against the institution of the regular militia decreed by Sultan Selim at Stamboul, there were wider spread rebellions which attacked the constitution of the Turkish Empire and diminished its extent; amongst them that of Czerni-Georges, which raised Servia to the position of a free state; of Mahomet Ali, who made his pachalik of Egypt into a kingdom; and finally that of the man whose history we are about to narrate, Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, whose long resistance to the suzerain power preceded and brought about the regeneration of Greece.
The Egyptian Institute Festival of the birth of Mahomet Bonapartes prudent respect for the Mahometan religion His Turkish dress Djezzar, the Pasha of Acre Thoughts of a campaign in Germany Want of news from France Bonaparte and Madame Fours The Egyptian fortune-teller, M. Berthollet, and the Sheik El Bekri The air "Marlbrook" Insurrection in Cairo Death of General Dupuis Death of Sulkowsky The insurrection quelled Nocturnal executions Destruction of a tribe of Arabs Convoy of sick and wounded Massacre of the French in Sicily projected expedition to Syria Letter to Tippoo Saib.
If we succeed, it is to be hoped we shall find in that place the treasures of the pasha, and arms for three hundred thousand men. I will raise and arm the whole of Syria, which is already greatly exasperated by the cruelty of Djezzar, for whose fall you have seen the people supplicate Heaven at every assault.
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