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This richly detailed account reveals how Sir Ralph Abercromby's strategy restored the honour of the British army and averted disaster for the Empire.
In 1800 the British army's reputation was in tatters, having experienced nothing but failure in wars across the world for forty years. At home, a divided cabinet had to face the problem of Egypt, which had been occupied by Napoleon's Army of the Orient since 1798.
The momentous task of ejecting France fell to a disparate band of soldiers led by Sir Ralph Abercromby, an elderly general with a dubious military record. Yet, against all the odds, Abercromby's force decisively defeated the French army on 21 March 1801, bringing Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign to a definitive and crushing end.
Piers Mackesy vividly brings to life the events of the battle and the characters involved, revealing how Abercromby's carefully planned and brilliantly executed strategy, and the discipline of the soldiers he had welded into cohesion, restored the honour of the British army, averted disaster for the Empire, and set the standard by which all future battles would be fought.
Contents
List of Maps and Tables
Introduction
Preface
Part I: Forging an Army
1 'Sir Ralph Is Not a Courtier'
2 A Look at John Turk
3 The Forging of The Blade
4 Rehearsing Invasion
5 The Eve of Battle
Part II: Beach-Head
6 Assault Landing
7 'We Shall All Fare Alike'
8 'A Cool Intrepidity': The Mandara Battle
9 'We Must Make the Attempt'
10 Surprised in Darkness
11 The Battle in The Dawn
12 The Price of Victory
Part III: Breakout
13 'Ungracious Manners and A Violent Temper'
14 'Much More at Ease in His Command'
15 The Thrust on The Nile
16 The Verge of Mutiny
17 Onward to Cairo
Part IV: Honour Redeemed
18 Forty Centuries Look Down
19 The Final Manoeuvre
20 The Fall of Alexandria
21 The Achievement
22 'Abercromby's Soldiers'
Later Titles of the British Regiments
Notes
Guide to Citations
Index



