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Narrative Of The Expedition Of Buonaparte.
' Let us leave to Zemaun Shaw and to Tippoo Sultan the care of driving the English from Bengal . Zemaun Shaw alone can do this with his 120 , 000 Knights . Besides , why should I , ao to the other end of the world , to employ fruitless and inglorious efforts on an obscure and barbarous theatre ? When I shall have driven the English from India , will their power be shaken ? Will they be the less on that account the masters of the ocean , or the masters of the Mediterranean , in which they dare to say that 1 am a prisoner ? Does not their alliance with the Russians , for the purpose of deceiving the Turks , open to them a new world , for the purpose of glutting their
avarice ? No , it is not in the faftories of Madras or Calcutta that I am to look for glory . It is not there that France , of which mv army is a precious portion , can be useful . It is Europe that must be made the theatre of war ; and since the Turk has been so imprudent as to rear thestandard of it , it is in Constantinople that I will tear it from his hands , 1 will put Egypt in a state sufficient for its defence and preservation . 1 shall pave the way for my expedition , by gaining over to iny side
the Arabs , the Druses , and the Marnites . When master of Syria , I shall there form my magazines , and shall protect by the mountains my rapid march on the " skirts of the desar ' t . When arrived at the mountains of Cilicia , my position will be strengthened , my left . wing will be supported by the sea , my rig ht by the Euphrates . 1 shall be able to keep open my communications with the Dearbekir and Armenia , corn countries , and which are disaffected to the Grand Turk . 1 will
call on the assistance of the Bedouins , Turcomans , Kurds , Armenians , and Persians , to the ruin of their common ' enemy ; and forming a o-reat body of cavalry , I shall soon cross the six or seven hundred miles which separate me from the Bosphorus , which I may , perhaps , cross-on rafts , and I will then enter Constantinople . There a new course is opened to me . I enter on the theatre of Europe , and form a counterpoise to all the powers . I shall be able either to establish
or to strengthen the republic of all Greece by Albania and Corfu . I shall be able to keep open the communication with Italy and France . I shall be able to raise Poland from its ruins , and to form a state there which may maintain the ancient balance of the north . Russia will be kept in check , and will be apprehensive of internal disturbances . Austria , placed between two enemies , will have still greater cause to be alarmed , and will be apprehensive for the enfranchisement of Hunei-ary . Prussia will resume her state of natural alliance with
France , " the new empire of Byzantium . Denmark an ' d Sweden , relieved from the pressure of Russia , will increase both in their means and their influence . Moscow , jealous of Petersburg , will reclaim its independence . England , driven from the Archipelago , will quit the Mediterranean ; and Governments , tired at length with so much war , battles , fire , massacre , crime , and follies , will then in a mass be ready to listen to peace . May I be able to see that happy day , and to see an obelisk in Constantinople bear this inscription : ' To the French army , the conquerors of Italy , of Africa , and of Asia—to Buonaparte , Member of the National-institute , th « pacificator of Europe !
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Narrative Of The Expedition Of Buonaparte.
' Let us leave to Zemaun Shaw and to Tippoo Sultan the care of driving the English from Bengal . Zemaun Shaw alone can do this with his 120 , 000 Knights . Besides , why should I , ao to the other end of the world , to employ fruitless and inglorious efforts on an obscure and barbarous theatre ? When I shall have driven the English from India , will their power be shaken ? Will they be the less on that account the masters of the ocean , or the masters of the Mediterranean , in which they dare to say that 1 am a prisoner ? Does not their alliance with the Russians , for the purpose of deceiving the Turks , open to them a new world , for the purpose of glutting their
avarice ? No , it is not in the faftories of Madras or Calcutta that I am to look for glory . It is not there that France , of which mv army is a precious portion , can be useful . It is Europe that must be made the theatre of war ; and since the Turk has been so imprudent as to rear thestandard of it , it is in Constantinople that I will tear it from his hands , 1 will put Egypt in a state sufficient for its defence and preservation . 1 shall pave the way for my expedition , by gaining over to iny side
the Arabs , the Druses , and the Marnites . When master of Syria , I shall there form my magazines , and shall protect by the mountains my rapid march on the " skirts of the desar ' t . When arrived at the mountains of Cilicia , my position will be strengthened , my left . wing will be supported by the sea , my rig ht by the Euphrates . 1 shall be able to keep open my communications with the Dearbekir and Armenia , corn countries , and which are disaffected to the Grand Turk . 1 will
call on the assistance of the Bedouins , Turcomans , Kurds , Armenians , and Persians , to the ruin of their common ' enemy ; and forming a o-reat body of cavalry , I shall soon cross the six or seven hundred miles which separate me from the Bosphorus , which I may , perhaps , cross-on rafts , and I will then enter Constantinople . There a new course is opened to me . I enter on the theatre of Europe , and form a counterpoise to all the powers . I shall be able either to establish
or to strengthen the republic of all Greece by Albania and Corfu . I shall be able to keep open the communication with Italy and France . I shall be able to raise Poland from its ruins , and to form a state there which may maintain the ancient balance of the north . Russia will be kept in check , and will be apprehensive of internal disturbances . Austria , placed between two enemies , will have still greater cause to be alarmed , and will be apprehensive for the enfranchisement of Hunei-ary . Prussia will resume her state of natural alliance with
France , " the new empire of Byzantium . Denmark an ' d Sweden , relieved from the pressure of Russia , will increase both in their means and their influence . Moscow , jealous of Petersburg , will reclaim its independence . England , driven from the Archipelago , will quit the Mediterranean ; and Governments , tired at length with so much war , battles , fire , massacre , crime , and follies , will then in a mass be ready to listen to peace . May I be able to see that happy day , and to see an obelisk in Constantinople bear this inscription : ' To the French army , the conquerors of Italy , of Africa , and of Asia—to Buonaparte , Member of the National-institute , th « pacificator of Europe !