"The Adventures of Henri Bonhomme - Prequel 1" Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Sep 2026 1:32 p.m. PST |
"Henri Bonhomme was finding his posting rather tedious. Since landing in Egypt on 1 July 1798 he had seen little action. While Bonaparte had taken Alexandria his battalion has been assigned to guard the trains. Then as the main army marched across the desert on Cairo, gaining laurels at the Battle of the Pyramids, he had remained in garrison at Alexandria for nine months before being sent to the Nile in April 1799.
Here the French established a garrison in an old Ottoman fort about two miles north-east of the port of Rashid, or Rosetta as the French called it. Renamed Fort Julien the fort was a terrible mosquito ridden place, but it was better than the squalor of Rosetta. There was no social life, but the redeeming feature was that since it had been set up as a supply base a good supply of wine could be found there…"
1866 and all that link
Armand
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 Flashman14  | 24 Sep 2026 8:09 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 24 Sep 2026 5:43 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it…
Armand
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