ARMEE d'ORIENT. manuscript "Departure from... - Lot 77 - FW Auction

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ARMEE d'ORIENT. manuscript "Departure from... - Lot 77 - FW Auction
ARMEE d'ORIENT. manuscript "Departure from Gaza". 27 pluviôse. 8 pp. on a notebook of 18 ff, small square in-4, yellow silk lace. The beginning of the account of a soldier of the Army of the East, veteran of the siege of El-Arich, prisoner of war of the Pasha ; after an interview with the vizier, he is told that peace is signed and that the prisoners would be sent back to Egypt. (...) after giving my thanks as I should, I was taken to the prison where I hastened to announce to my comrades-in-arms the happy news I had just learned. The next day an officer and some French grenadiers and some French grenadiers arrived from Jaffa; they were the remnants of the detachment which had been taken a few days before the siege of El Arich by a party of 600 Mamluk and Turkish horses, commanded by Effi Bey (...). Scenes of massacred prisoners, descriptions of the wealth of the viziers, embarkation at Gaza and departure boats to Egypt, description of the Muslim horsemen, etc.
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