I heard the

tents at b

tents and

march

light company, as he burst into our quarters one hot afternoo

e?" And he caught me a whack on the shoul

for I had been indulging in a siesta, and this "rude awakening" st

my brother sub, capering round the room. "Sur

it somewhere else," I retorte

of Alexandria and other towns on the Egyptian coast. Now Boney has humbugged the Sultan to enter into an alliance with France; so our Government-more power to its elbow!-has decided to send

in this expeditio

e son," wa

Sicily, for the purpose of making a descent on the coast of Egypt, and occupying Alexandria and Rosetta, and th

oons,[1] a detachment of artillery, the 31st, 35th, 78th, and De Rolle's regiments, and the Chasseurs Britanniques.[2] We encountered very bad weathe

sh resident at Alexandria, advised an immediate landing, assuring the commodore that the inhabitants were favourably disposed towards us, and inimical to the French; accordingly the tran

decided to land an advanced party at once. This party, which included the light compan

veral guns. Meanwhile the castle of Aboukir having surrendered, the remainder of the transports stood in and anchored in the bay. Seeing th

were now to meet with the first of those revers

h the 31st and Chasseurs Britanniques, marched against Rosetta, and occupied the heights of Abourmandour, which command that town. Rosetta is situated some five miles from a branch of the

y when the death-like silence was broken by a furious fusillade. From the windows and roof of every house a deadly fire was poured upon them. Cooped up in the narrow streets, unable to return the hidden enemy's fire, our gallant fellows fell fast. Wau

determined to make another attempt on Rosetta; indeed the reduction of that town

ewart, with a force consisting of detachments of the 20th Light Dragoons and Royal Artille

, Stewart considered it advisable to drive the enemy away from El Hamet-a village up the Nile, some two leagues above Rosetta-and take possession of the place, in order to secure his rear, and an u

rrender being contemptuously ignored by the Turkish commandant of Rosetta (who had been reinforced by a corps

half of the place; so he took up a line from the Nile to the front of the Alexandrian gate, thence retiring towards the plain, where he

of these redoubtable warriors. The siege, however, was carried on with great vigour; our gunners hammered away at Rosetta, without doing any great harm to the Turks (whose numbers daily increased), while we of the infantry w

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maica Light Horse in 1791, styled the 20th L

Britanniques-foreign corps in British pay.