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Lettre d' Andreossy au Commandant de la Place du Caire

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1p. 1/2, in folio; handwritten; French; engraved heading: Armée d'Egypte; Republique Française; (pour) Le Citoyen Alexandre Berthier, Général de Division, Chef de l'Etat-Major de l'Armée. signed: Andreossy;Letter from Andreossy to the Commandant in Cairo [Général Destaing]; El-Ariche, 3 Ventôse, an 7 [21.2.1799]; informing him of the dispatch under escort of prisoners to Cairo among them mameluks, kiacheffs; stressing that the Général en Chef [Bonaparte] has asked to treat them gently ("avec douceur");;As for flags seized from the mameluks, Bonaparte gave orders to put them in a mosque and to devise with the Divans to prepare a small feast for their installation.;[Andreossy (Antoine, François, comte;) général of Artillery]

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Reference Code
ARC. Ms. Var. Yah. 2 2 173
Dates
[1799]
Languages
French;
Description
1p. 1/2, in folio; handwritten; French; engraved heading: Armée d'Egypte; Republique Française; (pour) Le Citoyen Alexandre Berthier, Général de Division, Chef de l'Etat-Major de l'Armée. signed: Andreossy;Letter from Andreossy to the Commandant in Cairo [Général Destaing]; El-Ariche, 3 Ventôse, an 7 [21.2.1799]; informing him of the dispatch under escort of prisoners to Cairo among them mameluks, kiacheffs; stressing that the Général en Chef [Bonaparte] has asked to treat them gently ("avec douceur");;As for flags seized from the mameluks, Bonaparte gave orders to put them in a mosque and to devise with the Divans to prepare a small feast for their installation.;[Andreossy (Antoine, François, comte;) général of Artillery]
Title
Lettre d' Andreossy au Commandant de la Place du Caire.
Host Item
Napoleon and his Time
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990037114080205171

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