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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
comparatively feeble resistance, while
Turkey did come like a resistless “whirlwind,”
against “him,” that is, the government of
France? We have already produced some
evidence that the time of the end commenced
in 1798; and no reader of history need be
informed that in that very year a state of open
hostility between France and Egypt was
inaugurated.
To what extent this conflict owed its origin to
the dreams of glory deliriously cherished in
the ambitious brain of Napoleon Bonaparte,
the historian will form his own opinion; but
the French, or Bonaparte at least, contrived to
make Egypt the aggressor. Thus, when in the
invasion of that country he had secured his
first foothold in Alexandria, he declared that
“he had not come to ravage the country or to
