With that I should have raised and armed all Syria, so maddened by the ferocity of Djezzar that each time I attacked him the population prayed to God for his overthrow.

I should have marched upon Damascus and Aleppo; I should have swelled my army with the malcontents.

Advancing into the country, I should, step by step, have proclaimed the abolition of slavery, and the annihilation of the tyrannical government of the pashas.

I should have overthrown the Turkish empire, and founded a great empire at Constantinople, which would have fixed my place in history higher than Constantine and Mohammed II.

Perhaps I should have returned to Paris by way of Adrianople and Vienna, after annihilating the house of Austria.