[16] Dirom’s Campaign.
[17] Above one hundred pieces of artillery were taken at Assaye, and thirty-eight were captured at Argaum.
[18] Wilson.
[19] “It may be a question why the army did not sail direct to Egypt, and the event justifies the supposition that it would have experienced less resistance, since L’Egyptienne, Justice, Régénérée, and Lodi, which carried out important succours of troops and ammunition, had not at that time got into Alexandria.”—Wilson’s Expedition to Egypt.
[20] “The animals were naturally bad, and in such a shocking state as to make the dragoons feel humiliation in being ordered to take charge of them. Every commanding officer solicited rather to serve with his corps as infantry; but the nature of the service the army was about to be employed on rendered even such more desirable than none. Out of several hundred horses, two hundred were left for the cavalry, fifty for the artillery, and the remainder shot, or sold for a dollar apiece.”—Wilson’s Expedition.
EFFECTIVE STRENGTH OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY.
Guards, Major-General Ludlow.
1st, or Royals, 2nd battalions 54th and 92nd, Major-General Coote.
8th, 13th, 90th, Major-General Craddock.