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  in removing this obstacle. On the 8th, he conveyed Colonel Stewart, Lord Blaney, the 89th regiment, and a party of dragoons, to the vicinity of Shurafia, at which place the allies were joined by 600 cavalry, sent from the Grand Vizier’s army at Belbeis: these troops were Syrians, almost naked, badly armed, miserably mounted, and totally undisciplined.

At 10 A.M. on the 9th May, Captain Curry, with four flats and three launches, commenced an attack on the enemy’s forts at Rahmanié, and continued in action with them till four P.M., when his division was relieved by the Turkish gun-boats. In this very creditable affair the British had 4 men, including Lieutenant Hobbes of the Delft, killed, and 7 wounded.

The capture of Rahmanié cut off all communication between the French armies at Grand Cairo and Alexandria, secured the command of the Nile, and contributed in a great degree to the final expulsion of the enemy from a country which they had invaded with a view of humbling Great Britain by seizing on her possessions in the East. Though repulsed, however, the republicans were not much weakened, the total number of prisoners taken being no more than 160, the greater part of the garrison having previously retreated.

