Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day. Browne Abdullah

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       Abdullah Browne

      Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066187316

Table of Contents

       Preface

       BONAPARTE IN EGYPT

       AND THE EGYPTIANS OF TO-DAY

       CHAPTER I

       THE STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS

       CHAPTER II

       LINKS WITH THE PAST

       CHAPTER III

       THE DAWN OF THE NEW PERIOD

       CHAPTER IV

       A COUNCIL OF STATE

       CHAPTER V

       THE PROCLAMATION THAT FAILED

       CHAPTER VI

       A LONG MARCH AND A SHORT BATTLE

       CHAPTER VII

       AFTER THE BATTLE

       CHAPTER VIII

       VICTORS AND VANQUISHED

       CHAPTER IX

       THE GATHERING OF A STORM

       CHAPTER X

       THE BURSTING OF THE STORM

       CHAPTER XI

       AFTER THE STORM

       CHAPTER XII

       PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE SIEGE OF CAIRO

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE PRICE OF PEACE

       CHAPTER XV

       AN UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE

       CHAPTER XVI

       MAHOMED ALI AND HIS SUCCESSORS

       CHAPTER XVII

       FACHODA AND AFTER

       CHAPTER XVIII

       HEALTHY INFLUENCES

       CHAPTER XIX

       UNHEALTHY INFLUENCES

       CHAPTER XX

       MORE UNHEALTHY INFLUENCES

       CHAPTER XXI

       TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

       Index

Preface

       Table of Contents

      Eight years have passed since I first conceived the idea of writing this book, but it was not until about two years ago that I was able to find time to put together a first rough outline of the form I wished it to take. In the interval I have been obliged from time to time to lay it aside altogether; and, at the most favourable times, have never had more than a few hours a week to devote to it. I had just completed what I had intended to be the last chapter, when events occurred that obliged me to rewrite it, and, that I might do so fitly, await the issue of those events. As the book now stands it is at best but a mere outline. A larger volume than this might easily be written upon each of several of the subjects I have but glanced at, yet I hope I have succeeded in giving a connected and intelligible sketch and one sufficient for the attainment of the chief object I have had in view, that of presenting the Egyptian as he really is to the many who, whether living in Egypt or out of it, have but few and imperfect opportunities of learning to understand him. For over thirty years I have given of all I have had to give, for the promotion of two objects: first, that Pan-Islamism, which I conceive