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Ruins, rendered afterwards renowned, as the ctiap. 
theatre of the most dreadful carnage during the ^ ^j_ 
glorious battle of the twenty-first. 
About the nineteenth, Menou arrived in Alex- 
andria, pouring forth a torrent of abuse upon 
the garrison and troops who had opposed the 
landing of tlie English army. Delivering one of 
his turgid harangues, he reproached them', 
*' in allowing, to tlieir' everlasting shame, an army 
of heroes to be chastised by a mob of English school- 
boys.'' The fat figure of Menoii, added to his 
blustering and gasconading manner, rendered 
him a pleasant object of ridicule to the natural 
vivacit}'" of Frenchman, who distinguished him 
by the appellation of " Cochon-Ganeral T fre- 
quently retiring from the parade highly diverted 
by his fanfaroniiades. Having ended the speech 
he had prepared for the occasion of his arrival, 
immediate preparations were made for a general 
attack upon the English, with his whole force ; 
" pour aneantir les Anglois," as he termed it, 
tout d'un coup.'' The day for this great event 
Avas fixed for the twenty-first, when our army 
was to be surprised, before day-light, in its 
(l) The words were given to nie Ly some French ofl'icers wlio were 
present upon that occasion. 
