NAPOLEON Letter Signed Bonaparte to Chief of Ordinance Jean

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NAPOLEON IN THE HOLY LAND NAPOLEON. Letter Signed, "Bonaparte," to Chief of Ordinance Jean Pierre Daure, in French, adjusting the rate at which provisions are distributed to the army. 3/4 page, 4to, "Bonaparte, Général en Chef" stationery; inlaid, minor even toning; matted with description and framed. Jaffa, "7 Prairial an 7" [26 May 1799]

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". . . The army will take provisions on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 at a rate of 8 ounces of biscuit, 6 rice, 4 meat, 2 oil.
"It will continue on 16, 17, & 18 at a rate of 10 ounces of rice."
After Horatio Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, Napoleon's Mediterranean successes were few. At the beginning of March, however, the French troops captured Jaffa. Suffering from an outbreak of the bubonic plague and repulsed by the Turks and their British allies, the French fortunes turned again for the worse, as they were compelled to lift the siege against Acre six days prior to the date of this letter, and retreat to Egypt.