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Mandora Barracks Officers Mess
Hospital Road
In reception area of Sodexho Catering
Aldershot
GU11 2AU
England
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- Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
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UPPER TABLET: IN THE YEAR OF CHRISTIAN AERA/ 1798/ THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE/ LANDED ON THE SHORES OF EGYPT AND ARMY OF 40,000 MEN/ COMMANDED BY THEIR MOST ABLE AND SUCCESSFUL GENERAL/ BUONAPARTE./ THE CONDUCT OF THE GENERAL AND THE VALOUR OF THE TROOPS/ EFFECTED THE ENTIRE SUBJECTION OF THAT COUNTRY/ BUT UNDER DEVINE PROVIDENCE IT WAS RESERVED FOR THE BRITISH NATION/ TO ANNIHILATE THEIR AMBITIOUS DESIGNS./ THEIR FLEET WAS ATTACKED, DEFEATED AND DESTROYED/ BY A BRITISH FLEET OF EQUAL FORCE/ COMMANDED BY ADMIRAL LORD NELSON./ THEIR INTENDED CONQUEST OF SYRIA,/ WAS COUNTERACTED AT ACRE,/ BY A MOST GALLANT RESISTANCE/ UNDER COMMODORE SIR SYDNEY SMITH/ AND EGYPT WAS RESCUED FROM THEIR DOMINION,/ BY A BRITISH ARMY INFERIOR IN NUMBERS. BUT/ COMMANDED BY GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY/ WHO LANDED AT ABOUKIR ON THE 8 OF MARCH 1801/ DEFEATED THE FRENCH ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS/ PARTICULARLY IN A MOST DECISIVE ACTION NEAR ALEXANDRIA/ ON THE 21 OF THAT MONTH/ WHEN THEY WERE DRIVEN FROM THE FIELD/ AND FORCED TO SHELTER THEMSELVES/ IN THEIR GARRISONS OF CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA,/ WHICH PLACES SUBSEQUENTLY SURRENDERED/ BY CAPITULATION./ TO RECORD TO FUTURE AGES THESE EVENTS,/ AND TO COMMEMORATE THE LOSS SUSTAINED/ BY THE DEATH OF/ SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY,/ WHO WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED/ ON THAT MEMORABLE DAY/ IS THE DESIGN OF THIS INSCRIPTION/ WHICH WAS DEPOSITED HERE, IN THE YEAR OF CHRIST 1802/ BY THE BRITISH ARMY ON THEIR EVACUATING THIS COUNTRY/ AND RESTORING IT TO THE TURKISH EMPIRE. MIDDLE TABLET: ON THE REMOVAL OF/ CLEOPATRA'S OBELISK,/ THE ABOVE TABLET WAS SENT TO/ LORD HILL/ THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF,/ AND PRESENTED BY HIM TO/ KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH LOWER TABLET: IT WAS FIXED IN 1837/ BY THE KING'S ORDERS/ IN THE PANTHEON IN KEW GARDENS/ AFTER THE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND OF CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE/ IT WAS GIVEN TO THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL/ AND BY THEM TRANSFERRED TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT/ AND FIXED IN MANDORA BARRACKS, ALDERSHOT/ IN 1894
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