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Army of the East, General Orders

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Proclamation to the Troops on the Commencement of the War of the Third Coalition
by Napoleon Bonaparte

Orders given July 27, 1799. As published in C.H. Gifford's 1817 book History of the Wars occasioned by the French Revolution.

125209Proclamation to the Troops on the Commencement of the War of the Third CoalitionNapoleon Bonaparte

The general-in-chief, wishing to give mark of his approbation to the brigade of cavalry of General Murat, which covered itself with glory at the battle of Aboukir, orders the commandant of artillery to send to the brigade the two English pieces of cannon, which had been sent, by the court of London, as a present to Constantinople, and which were taken in battle.

On each cannon there shall be engraven the names of the three regiments composing that brigade, as well as the name of General Murat, and that of Adjutant Roire: there shall be written round the touch-hole, 'Battle of Aboukir.'

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