Lettre d' Andreossy au Commandant de la Place du Caire

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]