Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty's Ship, Le Tigre, surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns.

  • Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty's Ship, Le Tigre, surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    and that it still probably remains a fixed point in the, view of their ambitious leader ; when it is also considered, that Egypt and Syria are nearly connected with the British possessions in the East, and that the acquirement of them by France, would give her a most undue commercial and political pre- ponderance, the decisive check which her arms experienced at Acre, must be regarded as an important event, and must render the city, and every thing connected with it, of high interest to the minds of Britons. This national interest is heightened, when it is known that the defence of the city, and the repulse of the French, were effected by Englishmen, under the able command of a hero who had so often fought and conquered on another element; an element, the dominion of which is, by prescriptive right, the unalienable birthright of his countrymen. Had France possessed herself of Syria, the proud minarehs of Constantinople might have been levelled with the dust, the whole empire of Turkey might have been subjected to her power, Persia might have been added to the list of subjugated kingdoms, and India weuld have been open to her attacks. But, thanks to the military virtues of Sir Sidney Smith, the frontier of Syria was sue-