186 THE CAMEL. 



Arabian used in the same way, in Syria, the gun 

 being mounted on the pack-saddle. In modern 

 European armies they have hardly been em- 

 ployed, except by Napoleon, in transporting the 

 baggage of his army in the Syrian campaign, 

 and in his celebrated dromedary regiment in 

 Egypt ; and, more recently, by the army of oc- 

 cupation in Algeria. Upon the march from 

 Egypt to Syria, the baggage, the camp equi- 

 page, and the sick, of an army of fifteen thousand 

 men, were transported solely by camels. 



In the campaigns of Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim 

 Pacha, against the Wahabis, in Arabia, camels 

 were the only means of transportation for heavy 

 ordnance, and every description of military ma- 

 terial, required for the large army of the Pacha ; 

 and though great numbers of them . perished 

 from the fatigues and privations of the march, 

 yet the loss from this cause was less than it 

 would have been had any other means of con- 

 veyance been resorted to. 



It is remarkable that the military archives 

 of France furnish little or no information, be- 

 yond the mere number of the corps, respecting 

 the dromedary regiment of the army of Egypt, 

 the historical documents belonging to the sub- 

 ject having been chiefly lost or suppressed ; and 

 all we know concerning it is derived from an 

 imperfect and erroneous account in the great 



