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CHAPTER XVI. 
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MILITARY HISTORY AND TACTICS. 
THE only historical article in this department of our work js Captain Walsh’s 
« Journal of the late Campaign in Egypt :” The author does not aspire to the 
rank of a military critic, although the events of which he was a witness are 
well worthy of a cornmentary ; he claims no higher praise than that of a faithful 
narrator of what he has seen; and as far as we can judge from internal evidence, 
arid the concurrent testimony of others, he appears well entitled to the character of 
impartial authenticity. The volunteer associations have given birth to several 
rudimental publications, among which “ The Manual for Infantry” recommended 
by the Duke of York ; Colonek Herries’s “ Instructions for Cavalry,” and the 
extracts from Citizen Fossé’s work * on the Defence of Picquets,” stand conspi- 
cuous for their utility. 
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Art. L Journal of the late Campaign in Egypt ; including Descriptions of that Country 
and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri.. With an Appendix. con- 
‘tainine Official Papers and Documents. 
Ninety-third Regiment of Foot, 
4to. pp. 350. 4) plates. 
THE only valuable part of Captain 
Walsh’s book (which indeed constitutes 
by far the larger proportion of it) are the 
military details : of these a perspicuous 
account is given in plain, unornamented, 
but correct language; and the verbal de- 
scriptions are illustrated by maps and 
plans that bear every appearance of au- 
thenticity. From the author’s official 
situation he has been enabled to give 
fuller details of the operations of that 
part of the army commanded by Sir 
Eyre Coote, than have yet appeared be- 
fore the public: by collating therefore 
the work before us with Major Wilson’s 
account of the campaign, already noticed 
in our former volume, 2 complete his- 
tory of the transactions of the British 
army in Egypt may be collected. .'The 
battle at the landing ‘of the troops and 
the two subsequent actions, in the last 
of which General Abercrombie fell, are 
described nearly with equal detail, and 
with satisfactory agreement, by Major 
Wilson and Captaia Walsh. 
By Tuomas Watsu, Captain in his Majesty's 
Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coote, Sc. 
Major-General Hutchinson, on whom 
the supreme command devolved, quitted 
the peninsula of Aboukir, in order’ to 
carry on the war to the walls of Cairo, 
Major Wilson was included in the divi- 
sion of the army selected for this pur- 
pose, and of course his attention would 
be principally directed to this part of the 
campaign. Major-General Coote, as 
second in command, was’ left with the 
remainder of the troops before Alexan- 
dria ; and after the reduction of Cairo 
and the return of General Hutchinson, 
he was entrusted with the direction of 
the operations to the westward of this 
town till its surrender : of these proceed- 
ings Captain Walsh, being aid-de-camp 
to General Coote, has given a very par- 
ticular account, without however ne- 
glecting the more distant operations, of 
which he was not an eye-witness. ‘The 
journal commences with the entrance of 
the armament into the Mediterranean, 
and concludes with the surrender of 
Whene Alexandria. "oY pA gis 
