The English will send their fleet; they control by sea.

We, who have neither land nor sea, will be compelled to take part from here in the evacuation of Egypt and the capitulation of our army.
"You take a gloomy view of things, general!" "The future will show which of us two have seen things as they are." "What would you have done in my place ?" "I don't know.

But, even had I been forced to bring them back by way of Constantinople, I should never have abandoned those whom France had intrusted to me.

Xenophon, on the banks of the Tigris, was in a much more desperate situation than you on the banks of the Nile.

He brought his ten thousand back to Ionia, and they were not the children of Athens, not his fellow citizens; they were mercenaries!" From the instant Bernadotte uttered the word Constantinople, Bonaparte listened no longer; the name seemed to rouse a new train of ideas in his mind, which he followed in solitary thought.