[Footnote 745: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 746: 9 July. _Despatches_, II, p. 311.]
[Footnote 747: 5 Nov. _Ibid._, II, p. 413.]
[Footnote 748: Dated 6 Oct., 1800. _Ibid._, II, p. 436.]
[Footnote 749: Dundas to Abercromby, 6 Oct., 1800. W.O., VI, 21.]
[Footnote 750: Ralph Abercromby to Dundas, 2 Nov., 1800. W.O., I, 344.]
[Footnote 751: R. Abercromby to Elgin, 2 Jan., 1801. F.O. Turkey, 31.]
[Footnote 752: Moore, _Diary_, I, pp. 392-4.]
[Footnote 753: R. Abercromby to Dundas, 21 Jan., 1801. W.O., I, 345.]
[Footnote 754: Elgin to Abercromby, 4 Dec., 1800. F.O. Turkey, 30.]
[Footnote 755: R. Abercromby to Dundas, 16 March, 1801. W.O., I, 345.]
[Footnote 756: Friant, the commander of Alexandria, reported that the
invasion was a trivial affair and demanded a regiment of cavalry only.
Rigault, pp. 240, 242.]
[Footnote 757: Menou to Friant, 20 ventôse, IX (11 March, 1801). “. . .
Si les Anglais veulent en faire autant tous les jours, ils mettront nos
troupes en curée.” Rousseau, _Kléber et Menou_, p. 399.
Menou to Reynier, 16 ventôse, IX (7 March, 1801). “Abercromby est peu
entreprenant et Sidney Smith . . . un cerveau brûlé . . .” Rousseau, p.
398.]
[Footnote 758: The British losses about 1300 and the French about 500.
“Return of Casualties” in W.O., I, 345.
Notwithstanding, Richardot, who wrote his _Memoirs_ in 1848 pretends
that there was no battle at all (p. 388). This is a sample of the
reliability of memoirs. Richardot was then too old.]
[Footnote 759: Cartoons were distributed depicting him “hurrying” to
Alexandria on the back of a tortoise and followed by a caravan of
camels. On one was his wife; another was loaded with “ordres du jour”; a
third with “nouvelles presque officielles”; a fourth with the “vérité
toute entière.” The last three were sinking beneath the burden. Reybaud,
_Histoire Scientifique_, VIII, p. 152.]
[Footnote 760: Hutchinson to Dundas, 1 April, 1801. W.O., I, 345.]
[Footnote 761: Moore to his father, 25 March, 1801. Lady Brownrigg,
_Letters of Sir John Moore_, p. 111. Moore to his father, 1 April, 1801.
_Ibid._, pp. 122-4.]
[Footnote 762: There is a witty letter from René to Belliard, 25
germinal, IX (14 April, 1801). Rigault, p. 319, on the “musulman
philosophy and language of their chief.”]
[Footnote 763: Menou to Belliard, 30 germinal, IX (19 April, 1801).
Rousseau, _Kléber et Menou_, p. 401.]
[Footnote 764: Marten, A., Suppl., II, 502. B. VII, 22. Testa, II, 31.]
[Footnote 765: Moore, _Diary_, II, p. 35.]
[Footnote 766: _Campagnes d’Egypte_, II, p. 438.]
[Footnote 767: Martens, A. Suppl., II, 509. B., VII, 29. Testa, II, 37.]
[Footnote 768: Napoleon wrote to Fouché on 15 April, 1807, that it was
on the strength of the misinformation in the Intercepted Correspondence
that Britain invaded Egypt in 1801. He adds: “Aucune opération n’était
plus hasardée que celle-là.” The attempt succeeded “parce qu’il était
dans l’ordre du destin qu’elle devait réussir.” _Correspondance_, XV,
12361.
Napoleon’s conversation with Reubell in 1802. _Nouvelle Revue
retrospective_, 10 June, 1904, p. 374.
The British expedition “was dictated by peculiarly the same ignorance,
folly and presumption as had inspired all his (Dundas’) previous
enterprises . . .” Fortescue, _History of the British Army_, IV, part
II, p. 865. Cf. also pp. 845, 846.]
[Footnote 769: Fortescue, op. cit., IV, part II, p. 864.]
[Footnote 770: Senior, _Conversations with Thiers_, etc., I, pp. 198-9.]
[Footnote 771: Joseph de Maistre to Rossi, 9-21 March, 1807. _Œuvres
Complètes_, IX, p. 337.]