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Poverty - by James Platt

of our landing he pompously exclaimed, " I'll soon drive those beardless boys into the sea." But he found that if our soldiers were young, they were made of different stuff, and not so easily driven. He was, however, down sharp upon us, nearly surprising our troops, whose ammunition was short, it not being up to the front. The battle was desperate, but ended in the defeat of the French. It is said that a French soldier was riding towards Sir Ralph Abercromby to cut him down. A Highlander who had exhausted his ball fired his ramrod through the advancing soldier and killed him. Soon after Sir Ralph was shot in the thigh, brought on board our ship, put into the admiral's cabin, where he died in a few days greatly lamented; was embalmed, and sent in the Flora frigate to Malta, we being sometimes near Alexandria, and sometimes in the bay, whilst here we had a new captain named Searle from the Determinee. It was an exchange, our captain, Bearer, going into the Determinee. At last we got the French out, of Egypt., the troops were ordered home, and on September 20th,