At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon’s Invasion of Egypt by G. A. Henty (1832 – 1902)
Genre(s): Historical Fiction
Read by: gracesilvey in English
Parts:
Part 2 https://youtu.be/Olh6E8WFvDU
Chapters:
00:00:00 – 00 – Preface
00:02:24 – 01 – Making a Friend
00:37:46 – 02 – A Bedouin Tribe
01:10:48 – 03 – Left Behind
01:40:27 – 04 – The Battle of the Pyramids
02:15:15 – 05 – A Street Attack
02:48:27 – 06 – The Rising in Cairo
03:18:55 – 07 – Saved
03:52:52 – 08 – An Egyptian Tomb
04:28:56 – 09 – Sir Sidney Smith
05:02:41 – 10 – A Sea-fight
05:31:50 – 11 – Acre
06:02:36 – 12 – A Desperate Siege
06:32:38 – 13 – An Independent Command
This is a tale of the French expedition into Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten English possessions in India. Edgar Blagrove, the son of an English merchantman trading in Alexandria, gets caught up in the conflict and does great service for his country against the French. (Summary by Grace Silvey)
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