 | Beatrice Nicolini - History - 2004 - 208 pages
...strong doubts that this letter could have come from Cairo. In Wilks' opinion, the Napoleon's phrase "You have already been informed of my arrival on the borders of the Red Sea" suggested the existence of another letter, previous to the 25th January 1799. Moreover, the plan would... | |
 | Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin - Art - 2005 - 364 pages
...Early in 1799 British spies in Madras 'intercepted' a 'letter' from Napoleon to Tipu Sultan that read, 'You have already been informed of my arrival on the...the desire of delivering you from the iron yoke of England.'28 The Red Sea was a long way from the Indian Ocean. Moreover, the letter never got to Tipu... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - History - 2008 - 576 pages
...Situation', and assuring him that he, and the 'Invincible Army' which he had brought with him to Egypt, were 'full of the desire of delivering you from the iron yoke of England'.566 None of these letters ever reached Tipu, however. All were intercepted by the British... | |
 | India - 1927 - 960 pages
...who is said to have received at this time a letter from Napolean written from Cairo. The letter reads thus : — ' You have already been informed of my...innumerable and invincible army full of the desire of releasing and relieving you from the iron yoke of England. I eagerly embrace this opportunity of testifying... | |
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You have already been informed of my arrival on the borders of the Red Sea, with an innumerable and invincible army, full of the desire of relieving you from the iron yoke of England. 
