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SYRIAN WAR.

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CHAPTER XXI.

CHARACTER, rower, AND RESOURCES OF MOHAMMED ALI- TURKISH CONTEMPT OF THE ARABS ANECDOTE - FRIENDSHIP BE

TWEEN THE SULTAN AND PASHA — REVENGEFUL DESIGNS OF
THE PORTE- JANISSARIES
MENACES OF THE SULTAN - MO-

-

RECEPTION

HAMMED ALI'S RESOLUTION OF SEIZING ST. JEAN D'ACRE
QUARREL WITH THE PASHA OF SAIDA - INSURRECTION IN
BOSNIA-RECALL OF THE TURKISH FLEET -INVASION OF SYRIA
OF THE TURKISH ENVOY AT ALEXANDRIA
EFFORTS OF THE SULTAN TO ENGAGE THE
IN HIS QUARREL- PASHA'S ATTEMPTS TO
AND ALBANIA-ORDERED TO RAISE THE
D'ACRE -DEMANDS SAIDA AND DAMASCUS

PASHA- DECLARED A REBEL AND TRAITOR
PERSION OF THE TURKISH FORCES

EUROPEAN STATES STIR UP ROUMELIA SIEGE OF ST. JEAN

ATTACKS OSMAN PANIC AND DISDEFEAT OF THE TURKS SANGUINARY EXECU

AT ZERA INSURRECTION AT CAIRO
TIONS ASSAULT AND SURRENDER OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE
NARRATIVE OF AN EYE-WITNESS EXCESSES OF THE VICTORI-
OUS ARMY-SURRENDER OF DAMASCUS BATTLE OF HOMS -

ANECDOTE OF THE EGYPTIAN GENERAL- SURRENDER OF ALEPPO
-DEFEAT OF HUSSEIN PASHA SURRENDER OF ANTIOCH -
OCCUPATION OF SKANDEROON ANECDOTE - MILITARY SEVERITY

REJOICINGS AT CAIRO IBRAHIM ARRIVES AT ADANA DEFEAT OF THE TURKS IN THE DEFILES OF MOUNT TAURUSPETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF KASTAMUNI OPPRESSION OF THE TURKISH GOVERNORS DISUNION IN THE IMPERIAL IBRAHIM MARCHES

DIVAN DEFEAT OF THE TURKS AT KONIAH

UPON CONSTANTINOPLE.

DCCXIV. SINCE nothing, perhaps, could give a more just idea of the character, power, and resources of Mohammed Ali than a history of the recent Syrian war, which, crowded with remarkable events and sanguinary battles, terminated in the complete triumph of the Egyptian arms, a concise recapitulation of

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CONTEMPT FOR THE ARABS.

its principal circumstances appears to belong, in some measure, to the subject of this work. For, in endeavouring to make known the character of the Egyptians, and of the extraordinary man by whom their destiny is at present regulated, it seemed necessary to follow them into action, and observe how those peasants, whom I saw tamely submit to despotism at home, would behave in the field, when trained by discipline, and brought face to face with their ancient hereditary oppressors. Nothing could exceed the contumely and scorn with which the Turk, previous to this war, regarded the Arab cultivator, who, like the Penest of Thessaly, or the Periœcus of Crete, was looked upon as a servile rustic, born slavishly to till the soil of his master. An anecdote will illustrate this. An envoy from the Porte, on arriving at Alexandria some time before the war in Syria, was received with affability and distinction by the Pasha, who, in order to impress on his mind a high idea of the power and resources of Egypt, showed him his palace, forts, arsenal, and fleet. When he had beheld the whole, the envoy coldly observed,"Your Highness, I see, is blessed with many excellent possessions: but one thing you want." "And what," demanded the Pasha, "is that one thing?" "An army: for what are Arabs? Look at our Turks; have you any soldiers like them?" "Your Excellency is entirely mistaken," replied Mohammed Ali, with earnestness: "my Arabs are excellent soldiers; and when the day arrives to put the matter to the test, you shall see!”

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