[Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte CHAPTER XIV 13/15
We had won the battles of Rahmahanie'h, Chebreisse, and the Pyramids.
The Mamelukes were defeated, and their chief, Mourad Bey, was obliged to fly into Upper Egypt. Bonaparte found no obstacle to oppose his entrance into the capital of Egypt, after a campaign of only twenty days. No conqueror, perhaps, ever enjoyed a victory so much as Bonaparte, and yet no one was ever less inclined to abuse his triumphs. We entered Cairo on the 24th of July, and the General-in-Chief immediately directed his attention to the civil and military organization of the country.
Only those who saw him in the vigour of his youth can form an idea of his extraordinary intelligence and activity.
Nothing escaped his observation.
Egypt had long been the object of his study; and in a few weeks he was as well acquainted with the country as if he had lived in it ten years.
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