The Man Napoleon
The Man Napoleon
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After the capture of Jaffa Napoleon found that he had some twenty- five hundred prisoners upon his hands. What should he do with them? If he Kept them they would be a drain upon his supplies. If he released them, they would reinforce the enemy. Such was his problem; and he solved it by ordering that they should all be butchered, "care being taken," ac- cording to the words of his instructions, "that not one should escape." The enormity of this pro- ceeding is brought out by the fact that some o...f his officers refused outright to have anything to do Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT 93 with it. In later years he himself made feeble at- tempts to justify it, thus showing that he had at length come to realise its infamy.
He covered up the humiliation of Acre by a grandiloquent proclamation to his troops in which he praised them for their marvellous successes and told them that the capture of the city was not really worth while, since it would have entailed the loss of brave men whom he now wanted for more im- portant operations.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
After the capture of Jaffa Napoleon found that he had some twenty- five hundred prisoners upon his hands. What should he do with them? If he Kept them they would be a drain upon his supplies. If he released them, they would reinforce the enemy. Such was his problem; and he solved it by ordering that they should all be butchered, "care being taken," ac- cording to the words of his instructions, "that not one should escape." The enormity of this pro- ceeding is brought out by the fact that some o...f his officers refused outright to have anything to do Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT 93 with it. In later years he himself made feeble at- tempts to justify it, thus showing that he had at length come to realise its infamy.
He covered up the humiliation of Acre by a grandiloquent proclamation to his troops in which he praised them for their marvellous successes and told them that the capture of the city was not really worth while, since it would have entailed the loss of brave men whom he now wanted for more im- portant operations.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by W H William Henry Hudson to read onlineMoreLess
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