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As soon as the capitulation was signed, although it had been stipulated that the British troops were not to go into the town until the French took their departure, many officers did so, as General Menou freely gave permission to enter to anyone who applied for it. Edgar was one of the first of these, and, riding in, alighted at his father's house. Mr.
If the sources of information be obstructed, no conscientious man can undertake this weighty charge." In 1800, the army under Abercromby landed in Egypt, and defeated the French under Menou. General Baird, at the head of six thousand of the Indian army, reached Egypt. General Belliard surrendered in Cairo with thirteen thousand men.
General Jourdan was among those terrorists whom the Consular Government condemned to transportation; but after several interviews with Bonaparte he was not only pardoned, but made a Counsellor of State of the military section; and afterwards, in 1801, an administrator-general of Piedmont, where he was replaced by General Menou in 1803, being himself entrusted with the command in Italy.
I shook him heartily by the hand, and expressed my gratitude for the trouble he had taken, and my wonder at the astonishing progress the improvements of all kinds had made. "How have you possibly managed to effect all these miracles?" said I. "Very easily," replied Ménou. "You sent us fifteen negroes; my father lent me ten of his.
Dommaigne was killed, and the colonel of the German Legion desperately wounded; but a body of the Vendean infantry, coming up, took the cuirassiers in flank with their fire, and they fell back into Saumur. General Menou had been in the thick of the fight, and had three horses killed under him.
Menou immediately capitulated, and thus the whole French expedition was undone the fleet having been destroyed by Nelson, and the army having been captured by Hutchinson the French army, amounting in the whole to twenty-four thousand men, and their captors only to nineteen thousand British; the Indian army making up the general number to twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighteen.
A few days after the solemn re-establishment of the catholic worship, there arrived at the Tuileries a general officer, who would perhaps have preferred the establishment of Mahomet, and the change of Notre Dame into a mosque. He was the last general-in-chief of the army of Egypt, and was said to have turned Mussulman at Cairo, ex-Baron de Menou.
"Est-il permis, Monsieur?" now interposed the Creole, taking my hand, and pointing towards the house. "And the steamer?" said I, in a tone as drawling as I could make it, and without moving a pace in the direction indicated. "Oh! that will wait," replied Ménou, smiling. What could I do with such a persevering fellow?
"Who are those foreigners?" said I to Ménou, when the meal was over, and we were leaving the room. "Mexicans," was the reply; "but who they are I cannot tell you." "What! do you not know them?" "I know them perfectly well," he answered, "or they would not be in my house. But even my family," whispered he, "does not know them."
The Arab wall was obstinately defended, Kleber and Menou were both wounded as they led the grenadiers to the assault; Bon, however, had met with less resistance, and had captured the inner wall before the other columns succeeded in doing so.
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