Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Plan de la Bataille d'Abou-qyr gagnée par Bonaparte le 7 Thermidor de l'an VII. (Planche 89).<br /><br />

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of a view as described by the author: Plan of the Battle of Aboukir. See the account of this battle in the newspaper, Volume II, page 333; explanatory footnotes are at the bottom of the map. I enclose the military report made by General Berthier, in his book 'Relationship of General Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt and Syria' to leave nothing to be desired with respect to this interesting battle. "Bonaparte stops columns, and makes provisions for its attack. Brigadier Destaing with its three battalions march to remove the height of the right of the enemy, occupied by a thousand men; along a picket of cavalry order to cut the body in his retirement village. Lannes division is focused on the mountains of sand, to the left of the first line of the enemy, where there were two thousand and six pieces of cannon; two squadrons of cavalry were ordered to observe and cut the body into retirement. The rest of the cavalry march in the center. Lanusse the division remains on the second line. General Destaing advance to the no load; it abandons its limits, and retired to the village; cavalry saber fugitives. The body which marched the division Lannes, seeing that the right of its first line is forced to retreat, and that the cavalry turns his position, wants to retire; after firing a few shots, two squadrons of cavalry and a platoon guides cut retirement and forced to drown the bodies of two thousand men in the sea; none avoids death: the commander guides horse, Hercules, was wounded. The body of General Destaing walk of the village center on the second line of the enemy; it runs concurrently with the thirty-second demi-brigade attack in front; the enemy is strong resistance, his second line off a large body with his left to rescue the village; . the cavalry charge, tumbling, and pursue the fugitives, many of which rushes into the sea The village is won, the enemy continued to the redoubt, the center of its second position; this position was very strong, the redoubt was flanked by a tube which formed the Presque right down to the sea; another hose is prolongeoit on the left, but a short distance from the redoubt; the rest of the space was occupied by the enemy, who was on the nipples of sand and palm trees. While the troops catch their breath, we put guns in position in the village and along the sea, the right of the enemy and fear is beaten; battalions of General Destaing compofed the village they had just removed the center of attack in front of the redoubt; they were ordered to attack. General Fugiere ordered to form in the eighteenth column demi-brigade, and walk along the sea, to remove at no charge right of the Turks; Thirty-second, which occupoit the left of the village, the order to hold the enemy in check, and support the eighteenth. The cavalry, which formed the right of the army, attack the enemy on his left; she impetuously charging several times; her sword and forces him to throw overboard everything before her but she could not stay beyond the redoubt; located between the fire and the enemy gunners, carried by its value in the parade of lights, she immediately replioit she had loaded; and the enemy renvoyoit new forces on the bodies of his finest soldiers. This obstinacy and obstacles only irritate the nerve and the value of the cavalry; she ran and load onto the ditches of the redoubt, it projects; Chief Brigadier Duvivier was killed; Adjutant-General Roze, who directs the movements with as much composure as the talent squad leader guides on horseback Bessieres, the adjutant general the Turq, are leading the charge. The artillery of the cavalry, the guides take position in the enemy musketry, and the fire of the keenest grape contribute mightily to the success of the battle. The Adjutant General Turq the judge must be an infantry reinforcement; it is accountable to the commanding general, who gives him a battalion of the sixty-fifteenth; he joined the cavalry; his horse was killed; then it goes to the head of the infantry; he steals the center to the left onto the eighteenth demi-brigade, he sees advancing to attack the entrenchments of the right of the enemy. The eighteenth walking to a corner; the enemy comes out at the same time with his right hand; the column headings are fighting hand to hand; Turks seek to wrest the bayonets that give them death, they put the gun in Shoulder, fight saber and pistol: the eighteenth finally arrives at a corner; but the fire of the redoubt, which flanquoit from top to bottom striking where the enemy was joined, stop the column: General Fugiere, the adjutant general the Turq, are prodigies of valor; the first receives a head injury, it still continues to fight; a ball carries his left arm, he is forced to follow the movement of the eighteenth, who withdrew to the village in the largest order by a very high heat. The adjutant general the Turq, who had tried in vain to determine the column to jump into the entrenchments, rushes himself; but it is there alone, and there receives a glorious death; Chief Brigadier Morangie injured. Twenty braves the eighteenth rest on the ground; Turks, despite the murderous fire of the village rush retrenchments to cut the head of the dead and injured, and get the egret money their government gives any member who brings the head of an enemy. The commanding general had advanced a battalion of the twenty-second lightweight, and one of the sixty-ninth on the left of the enemy; General Lannes, who was at their head, seized the moment when the Turks were carelessly left their trenches; he attacked the redoubt by storm with his left and his throat; the twenty-second and sixty-ninth, a battalion of the sixty-fifteenth, jump into the ditch, and were soon on the parapet and into the redoubt, along with the eighteenth, is was back to the slender no load on the right side of the enemy. General Murat, who commanded the vanguard, which suivoit all movements, and constantly was the skirmishers, seized the moment when General Lannes lançoit on fears the battalions of the twenty-second and sixty-ninth to order a squadron of load, and through all the positions of the enemy as far as the ditch of the fort; this movement is done with such precision, with such impetuosity and timeliness, that when the fear is forced, the squadron found herself already to cut the enemy's retreat into the fort: the rout is full; the enemy in disorder, and struck terror everywhere bayonets and death; cavalry saber; it believes it has a resource in the sea; ten thousand men flock there, they were shot and strafed: never show terrible has come forward; none saves; the vessels were two leagues in the bay of Aboukir Mustapha Pasha, commander of the army turke, taken with two hundred Turks; two thousand remain on the battlefield; all the tents, all the luggage of French remain in power. "Discrete foxing, small foxing, otherwise good condition. Published for the first time in two volumes, an atlas of engravings, Didot, in 1802, the 'Journey to the Lower and Upper Egypt proved so successful that it was translated in 1803 into English and German, and a few years later in Dutch and Italian, among others. Almost all boards are designed by Denon, who also engraved himself a few, including portraits of the inhabitants of Egypt, who still kept the freshness of sketches taken on the spot (our 104-111 ). Two dozen writers have also collaborated on the creation of which Baltard, Galen, Reville and other etchings. Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon says Vivant Denon, born in Givry January 4, 1747 and died in Paris April 27, 1825, is a writer, author, diplomat and French administrator. At the invitation of Bonaparte, he joined the expedition to Egypt in shipping from May 14, 1798 on the frigate "La Juno." Protected by French troops, he had the opportunity to travel the country in all directions in order to gather the material that was the basis for his artistic work and the most important literary. It supports in particular General Desaix in Upper Egypt, which he refers to numerous sketches, ink wash and other drawings in pen, black chalk, or chalk. He draws constantly, usually on his knee, standing or on horseback, and sometimes even under enemy fire. After a journey of 13 months during which he draws thousands of drawings, Vivant Denon returned to France with Bonaparte, and became the first artist to publish the story of the expedition. The 141 boards that accompany his diary retrace its entire journey from the coast of Corsica to the pharaonic monuments of Upper Egypt. Bonaparte then appointed Director General of the Central Museum of the Republic, which became the Napoleon Museum and the Royal Louvre and arts administrator. In 1805, Vivant Denon revival project of the Vendome column, which had been suspended in 1803 then organizes expeditions across Europe to raise imperial works of art which are plundered to be carried away to the Louvre. In 1814, Louis XVIII confirmed as head of the Louvre, one wing of which still bears his name today. It is considered a great precursor of museology, art history and Egyptology.