 | Edward Howard - 1839 - 424 pàgines
...the mouth of the Damietta branch of the Nile to make an attack thereon, as combined with the Supreme Vizier, in order to draw the attention of the enemy that way, and leave his highness more at liberty to advance with the grand army on the side of the Desert. The attack began... | |
 | William Ainsworth - 1844 - 286 pàgines
...number. At the same time Xenophon marched at the head of the rear-guard towards the passage before them, in order to draw the attention of the enemy that way, and conceal, as much as possible, the march of the detachment. When Xenophon, with the rear-guard, came... | |
 | Gérard Chaliand - 1994 - 1126 pàgines
...rained most violently, Xenophon marched at the head of the rear-guard towards the passage before them, in order to draw the attention of the enemy that way, and conceal as much as possible the march of the detachment. When Xenophon, with the rear-guard, came to... | |
 | London gazette - 154 pàgines
...Mouth of the Damietta Branch of the Nile to make an Aitack thereon, as combined with the Supreme Vizir, in order to draw the Attention of the Enemy that Way,...more at Liberty to advance with the grand Army on the Side of .the Defart. The Attack begun by the Tigre's Boats taking Pofleffion of a ruined Caftle iituated... | |
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Caftle fltuated on the eaftern fide of the Bogaz, or entrance of the Channel, which the inundation of the Nile had infulated from the main land, leaving a fordable paflage. 
