CHAPTER XIX.

1799. The siege of Acre raised--Attention to names in bulletins--Gigantic project--The Druses--Mount Carmel--The wounded and infected-- Order to march on foot--Loss of our cannon--A Nablousian fires at Bonaparte--Return to Jaffa--Bonaparte visits the plague hospital-- A potion given to the sick--Bonaparte's statement at St. Helena. The siege of St. Jean d'Acre was raised on the 20th of May. It cost us a loss of nearly 3000 men, in killed, deaths by the plague, or wounds. A great number were wounded m…