Page 148 - 11 A Literal Prophecy

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
wrest it from the Grand Seignior, but merely

to deliver it from the domination of the

Mamelukes, and to revenge the outrages

which they had committed against France.” —

Thiers’s French Revolution, Vol. IV, p. 268.

Again the historian says: “Besides, he

[Bonaparte] had strong reasons to urge

against them [the Mamelukes]; for they had

never ceased to ill-treat the French.” — Id., p.

273.

The beginning of the year 1798 found France

indulging in immense projects against the

English. The Directory desired Bonaparte to

undertake at once a descent upon England;

but he saw that no direct operations of that

kind could be judiciously undertaken before

the fall, and he was unwilling to hazard his

growing reputation by spending the summer