[ALEXANDRIA - EGYPT EVACUATION]: An excellent A.L.S., `Augus[te] Guillaumier´, an attractive signature with ...

[ALEXANDRIA - EGYPT EVACUATION]: An excellent A.L.S., `Augus[te] Guillaumier´, an attractive signature with flourish, one page, 4to, Alexandria, 3rd of September 1801, to his mother, in French. Guillaumier, secretary of the sanitary administration, reports about the French army evacuation of Egypt, stating in part `You must have been worried about me, watching the part of the Egypt army returning without any news from me..The position we were holding in Alexandria did not permit me to send through my letters to Rosette..´ further saying `..a General is taking back with him the capitulation.. we must evacuate before ten days these countries and return to France..´ The present letter was written only three days after the English and Turcs took control of Alexandria and the French evacuated Egypt. The sheet bears a watermark. Folded, with small overall age wear and edges very slightly trimmed, otherwise about VG £200-300 On 21st March 1801 the French were defeated by the British and surrendered at Fort Julien. Cairo fell in June and Alexandria was besieged from August 17th till September 2nd, when French General in Egypt Jacques François Menou capitulated to the British.