THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS.
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The subject of the accompanying engraving is derived from the account already given of the Battle of the Pyramids, at the moment when Napoleon, pointing to those remains of antiquity, and addressing his soldiers, exclaimed, “Soldats! du haut de ces pyramides, quarante siècles vous contemplent.” The results of this battle are well known, the name of Buonaparte, now spread panic through the East; and the Sultan Kebir or King of Fire, as he was called from the deadly effects of the musketry in this engagement was considered as the destined scourge of God, whom it was hopeless to resist.
THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS.