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"Result is," said the Senator, "the intelligent foreigner's got pretty nearly to go out of the town to see a sunset without having to think about Aboukir and Alexandria. But that's Paris all over. There isn't a street, or a public building, or a statue, or a fountain, or a thing that doesn't shout at you, 'Look at me! Think about me!
Still we scarcely expected to find the French fleet there. Great then was our joy when the signal was seen flying from the masthead of the `Zealous, Captain Hood, that the enemy's fleet were moored in Aboukir Bay. Not a moment was lost in clearing the ships for action. We all knew that we had hot work before us.
As you go towards Cairo, Lake Mareotis is on your right and the Lake of Aboukir on your left. The former stretches out like a sea between shores so low that they disappear, and thus make it impossible to estimate the size of the lake, which melts away into the sky on the horizon.
The tidings of the great victories of Aboukir and Mount Tabor, reached Paris with Napoleon. Those Oriental names were shouted through the streets, and blazed upon the eyes of the delighted people in letters of light. Thus in an hour the whole of Paris was thrown into a delirium of joy, was displayed the most triumphant and gorgeous festival.
Edgar was requested by the general to ride with a troop of cavalry to find out the hut where the peasant who had spoken to him lived. He took them almost straight to the spot. The peasant was there, but had difficulty in recognizing in the young officer, the apparent Arab with whom he had spoken on the day of the battle of Aboukir.
They had, therefore, in response to the invitation of the Turks, come out to the peninsula of Aboukir. There, on the wide plain that had three years before been drenched with the blood of the French and the Egyptians, now stood the stately tents of the Turks and the Mamelukes.
But these orders did not reach the admiral before the blow fell; and it is, after all, somewhat ungenerous to censure Brueys for his decision to remain at Aboukir and risk a fight rather than comply with the dictates of a prudent but inglorious strategy.
Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 7 Amphion, protected cruiser Mined 3,440 136 Sept. 4 Speedy, torpedo gunboat Mined 810 ... Sept. 5 Pathfinder, protected cruiser Mined 2,940 250 Sept. 7 Warrior, protected cruiser Stranded 13,500 ... Sept. 9 Oceanic, auxiliary cruiser Wrecked 17,000 ... Sept. 18 Fishguard II, training ship Foundered ...... 21 Sept. 19 AE-1, submarine Lost 800 25 Sept. 20 Pegasus, protected cruiser Shelled 2,200 25 Sept. 22 Aboukir, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 510 Sept. 22 Cressy, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 561 Sept. 22 Hogue, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 362 Oct. 16 Hawke, protected cruiser Torpedoed 7,350 350 Oct. 18 E-3, submarine Shelled 800 25 Oct. 27 Audacious, dreadnought Torpedoed 25,000 2 Oct. 31 Hermes, protected cruiser Torpedoed 5,600 ... Nov. 1 Monmouth, armored cruiser Shelled 3,800 540 Nov. 1 Good Hope, armored cruiser Shelled 14,100 875 Nov. 5 D-5, submarine Mined 550 21 Nov. 11 Niger, torpedo gunboat Torpedoed 819 ... Nov. 20 Bulwark, battleship Explosion 15,000 800 Jan. 1 Formidable, battleship Torpedoed 17,000 579 Number of vessels lost, 21.
In the Abbey, I was much pleased with an interesting, though not very ornamental trophy of the glorious victory of Aboukir.
The command will be given, and they will obey. It will be their first deed of arms, their baptism of fire. The hour has not yet come. Mohammed is standing on the deck above, leaning against the mast, his arms crossed on his breast, looking over toward the shores of Aboukir.
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