CHAPTER XVIII

1799. Arrival at Jaffa--The siege--Beauharnais and Croisier--Four thousand prisoners--Scarcity of provisions--Councils of war--Dreadful necessity--The massacre--The plague--Lannes and the mountaineers-- Barbarity of Djezarr--Arrival at St Jean d'Acre, and abortive attacks--Sir Sidney Smith--Death of Caffarelli--Duroc wounded-- Rash bathing--Insurrections in Egypt. On arriving before Jaffa, where there were already some troops, the first person I met was Adjutant-General Gresieux, with whom I was w…