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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
with the pushing of Egypt? Napoleon had

crushed the armies of Egypt; he essayed to do

the same thing with the armies of the sultan,

who were menacing an attack from the side of

Asia. Feb. 27, 1799, with 18,000 men, he

commenced his march from Cairo to Syria. He

first took the fort of El-Arish, in the desert,

then Jaffa (the Joppa of the Bible), conquered

the inhabitants of Naplous at Zeta, and was

again victorious at Jafet. Meanwhile, a strong

body of Turks had intrenched themselves at

St. Jean d’Acre, while swarms of Mussulmans

gathered in the mountains of Samaria, ready

to swoop down upon the French when they

should besiege Acre. Sir Sidney Smith at the

same time appeared before St. Jean d’Acre

with two English ships, reinforced the Turkish

garrison of that place, and captured the

apparatus for the siege, which Napoleon had