The subject of the accompanying engraving is derived from the account
already given of the Battle of the Pyramids, at the moment when
Napoleon, pointing to those remains of antiquity, and addressing his
soldiers, exclaimed, “_Soldats! du haut de ces pyramides, quarante
siècles vous contemplent_.” The results of this battle are well known,
the name of Buonaparte, now spread panic through the East; and the
Sultan Kebir or King of Fire, as he was called from the deadly effects
of the musketry in this engagement was considered as the destined
scourge of God, whom it was hopeless to resist.
[Illustration: THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS.]