EGYPT. 359 
Five i^re72c/i Generals were killed. Me?ioiis horse 
was shot under him. It was reported, that he 
wept when he beheld the fate of the day, and 
exerted himself in vain endeavours to rally his 
retreating army. Among the wounded on our 
side, were Generals Cakes, Moore, Hope, and Sir 
Sidney Smith. The loss sustained by the French 
was not less than five thousand. Eleven hun- 
dred of their dead, as before stated, were 
buried by our own troops. After the action, 
both armies maintained the positions they had 
occupied before the battled 
After the twenty-first of March, the affairs in 
Egypt remained for a considerable time at a 
stand. We joined the fleet, as before men- 
tioned, upon the seventeenth of April. The 
death of Sir Ralph Abercronibie had then thrown f^S' by 
a gloom over every thing: and to its dissi- ^J'/j^.^^!.' 
pation, neither the splendid talents nor the 
acknowledged popularity of hi*s successor were 
in any degree adequate. Although General, 
(2) The French army upon this occasion consisted, according to their 
own statement, of nine thousand seven hundred men, including fifteen 
hundred cavalry, with forty-six pieces of cannon. The British force, 
reduced by their losses in the actions of the eighth and thirteenth, &c., 
did not yield an effective strength of ten thousand men, including three 
hundred cavalry. As the battle was fought by the right of the EJiglish 
army only, half that number resisted the concentrated attack of all the 
French iorca, — See Hint, of the Expedit. p. AZ. 
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crombie. 
