Tom, the captain of the ship, said, "Our journey from Italy to reach Egypt is almost over, let's go, men."
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The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a French expeditionary force sent to Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French Republic sought to capture Egypt as the first stage in an effort to threaten British India and support Tipu Sultan, and thus force Great Britain to make peace. Departing Toulon in May 1798 with over 40,000 troops and hundreds of ships, Bonaparte's fleet sailed southeastwards across the Mediterranean Sea. They were followed by a small British squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, later reinforced to 13 ships of the line, whose pursuit was hampered by a lack of scouting frigates and reliable information. Bonaparte's first target was the island of Malta, which was under the government of the Knights of St. John and theoretically granted its owner control of the Central Mediterranean. Bonaparte's forces landed on the island and rapidly overwhelmed the defenders, securing the port city of Valletta before continuing to Egypt. When Nelson learned of the French capture of the island, he guessed the French target to be Egypt and sailed for Alexandria, but passed the French during the night of 22 June without discovering them and arrived off Egypt first.
After all the French sons left Egypt, the French government pursued the followers of Napoleon Bonaparte and all those who suspected him
Napoleon Bonaparte fought the war on the Iberian Peninsula without thinking that he would be defeated. The Spanish city of Zaragoza held out to the end, and the French soldiers could not control The matter ended with his defeat and abdication in 1814, and he said about that war, as stated in the book of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs: "This disastrous war is what destroyed me. It formed the fatal knot that From it all the subsequent disasters that have befallen me have branched out.
Dantes, suspected of being a follower of Napoleon Bonaparte, was arrested But he soon escaped from prison after the priest helped him, and the priest told him that he left his legacy in the city of Alexandria when he was sailing with Napoleon Bonaparte and you have to take him
The priest saw in Dantes that he was like his son, so he told him all the details
After Dantes escaped from the central prison, he changed his name to Tom and began trading and manufacturing in contraband Until he built a large ship and his crew, and his dream became to quickly find the treasure of that priest and obtain the title of King of the Seven Seas and Oceans.
But everything didn't last when it started Loch Ness Monster Suddenly appearing on the road
Out of story "The Loch Ness monster is like the creature of Bigfoot and Yeti, for which there is no conclusive scientific evidence for its existence, and the creature is considered one of the most mysteries of occult zoology cryptozoology Famous, as the world's interest in it has appeared since the first sighting of it was published in 1933. Most scientists and experts find the available evidence does not support the existence of the lake monster and consider the observations of this creature either false or are errors In identifying known creatures or phenomena. Despite this, many people around the world still believe in the existence of this being. The locals took and then people from all over the world، Since the 1950s, the lake monster has been given a feminine name, Nessie or Unisig.
Tom suddenly remembered about it being published in newspapers and magazines about the origins of the story
Journalist and Loch Ness water warden Alex Campbell coined the word "monster," dated May 2, 1933, in his article for the Inverness Courier. On August 4, 1933, the newspaper published an article on A London man named "George Spicer" claims that when he and his wife were strolling around the lake a few weeks ago, they saw something "closest to a dragon or astonishingly prehistoric creature I have ever seen.""، He walks on the side of the road with an "animal" in his mouth. After the publication of this article, messages began to flock to the newspaper's headquarters, and most of them were from unknown people, saying that they saw the monster on land or in the water.، On their own land or on the land of their families, acquaintances, or tell events told to them by other people. And soon these stories reached all the British national newspapers and publications، Later international newspapers, publishers started talking about a "wild fish", a "sea snake", or a "dragon" that people see in Scotland, before finally settling on a unified name, "Loch Ness Monster". On December 6 1933, the first alleged photograph of the beast, taken by "Hugh Gray", was published, and that was after the monster was officially recognized by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Who demanded the police to prevent any assault on the object. In 1934, interest in the issue increased more than the first, after it emerged The Surgeon's Photograph) came into existence, and in the same year, the Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, Robert Thomas Gould, published a book followed by many similar books, in which he talks about His personal experience in collecting evidence about this creature, which dates back to before the summer of 1933. While other writers have claimed that physical observations of the beast date back to the sixth century."
Tom spoke in a voice that those on the ship could hear: "Rumors and gossip about the existence of huge animals living in the lake have been around for centuries, and some believers in the existence of the lake monster They believe the observations provided circumstantial evidence of the existence of Nessie. A section of those interested in the subject question the validity of the views and indicate that the views were not known in ancient times And it became famous in the early sixties of the twentieth century with the emergence of widespread interest in the legend of Nessie, for example, the alleged vision in October 1871 by Dr. Mackenzie who described a vision "Something is moving slowly and then it's moving faster and faster." The description of this sighting was repeated over and over without any record of vision by Dr. Mackenzie Which indicates that this view may be incorrect. The number of recorded views of the lake monster is estimated at about 5,000 views from the thirties of the twentieth century until the present days Many of them are questionable for many reasons, including the distance from which the object was seen or poor weather conditions that generated a thick fog that did not allow anyone to properly judge the nature of what he saw ، In addition to other natural or man-made factors, it turns out that many of the sightings were of deer or waves of boats that had passed in the same area a short time ago, and of course there were also many deceptions. On the other hand, some observations remain that cannot be easily explained, and some of them may actually be true. "
Then suddenly he shouted and said, "But this is true....it is true that our eyes sleep."
Then he asked the sailors who were with him, "Does anyone know how to deal with him?"
But as he believed, no one had ever known him except in the rumors spread, so how would they know how to escape from him?
With the arrival of the Romans in the first century AD to Scotland, they found a tribal people called the Picket people characterized by body tattoos. This people admired the animals and wrote tales and legends about them on the rocks. Some of the inscriptions found had descriptions similar to the descriptions of the Lake Nessie monster, and some suggest that it may be the first record of the existence of this creature, which dates back to about two thousand years.
In the great sea of Scotland, the North Sea, where Tom and some sailors also headed to Scotland from France, through Manchester and the United Kingdom to reach Egypt, but this obstacle was the worst thing you can think of . Where with the spread of strange phenomena that occur and people began to get used to the situation and learned that the sea is dangerous, but how to be a sailor without a sea sailors in short is to risk your soul to explore Searching and investigating, but like the appearance of the Ness monster, it was a great blow, especially the monster with a length of one hundred meters or more
A Scotsman who was riding in the ship spoke and said, "Do you know St. Columba?"
Everyone suddenly wondered who was the only Scotsman here and said Saint Columba?!
Tom replied, "Who is Saint Columba?"
The Scotsman said, "The first alleged sighting of the Loch Ness monster came in 565 AD, from St. Columba, who is considered one of the first missionaries of Christianity in Scotland. This observation was recorded by Saint Adomnan of Ioni in the seventh century. In this novel, written a century after the events, Adomnan describes how the Irish priest, Saint Columba, Who was living in the land of the Becket people at that time with his companions, how could he save the life of one of those people when he passed by them and they were burying a person near the Ness River, They told him that this dead man was swimming in the river when a "water monster" attacked him and ate him and dragged him under the water. They tried to rescue him in their boat, but they only succeeded in recovering him as a dead body. Columba, after hearing this story, astonished the Picts, by sending his follower "Lwin Muku Min" to swim in the river.in peace، He said, "Do not advance further, do not touch the son of Adam, go back at once." The beast complied at once, as if "strings pulled him back," and fled in terror, and the person was saved. So the pagan men of Columba and the Picts thanked God for this miracle."
Believers of the existence of the beast rely on this story, which takes place in the Ness River instead of the lake itself, to say that this creature was and still exists since the sixth century. As for those who doubt its reliability, they say: for stories of water monsters were all too familiar in medieval biographies of saints; Thus, the story of Adumanan may only be copies of a common story from that region. Skeptics also say that the story of St. Columba is completely independent of the current legend of the Loch Ness monster, and that it has only recently been linked to it by believers in the existence of a being willing to support their sayings.
Historian "Anthony Charles Thomas" says in one of his articles, that if there is something true in this novel, it may have been misinterpreted.، St. Columba may have seen a wild boar, a walrus, or any other animal swimming in the river, since he did not specify the nature of the beast. In addition, the saint's sighting was near the Loch Ness River, not the lake ، The same saint also narrated different sightings of many beasts in different regions of Scotland. Historian "R. Baines" says that this novel is the most serious old account of the beast, He adds that all other accounts dating back to before 1933 cannot be relied upon, as they do not prove that there was any extensive knowledge of this creature or any local culture arising from it.
Tom replied, "Are you saying we should pray to God now?"
The Scotsman replied, "Yes."
Tom replied, "We're not like Reverend Columbia, you know that?"
The Scotsman replied, "Yeah, we don't have anything else to do."
Some of the men began to raise their hands up and pray to the god. Seconds did not see, and the beast came closer and more, then with a kick from its tail, the big ship shook once, and dozens of men died with it.
Then suddenly Tom shouted, "Start the engine, let's sail to Scotland now."
The ship began to move quickly towards the front and the monster behind them at a speed slightly slower than the speed of the monster
In some newspapers and magazines recently, some time before sailing
Ground sightings of a strange creature around Loch Ness in modern times date back to the 16th century However, what sparked interest in the lake monster was the Spicer incident on July 22, 1933, when George Spicer and his wife saw a "strange creature" crossing the road in front of their car. The couple described the creature as having a huge body, a meter in height (4 feet) and a body length ranging from 1.5 to 8 meters (25 feet), with a wavy neck slightly thicker than an elephant's proboscis. Its width ranges between 3.0 and 3.7 meters (10-12 feet) as the width of the street. But they couldn't see any limbs of the creature because it was at a low level from the ground. The creature quickly crossed the path ahead of them toward the lake, which is 20 meters (20 yards) away, leaving a trail of its body on the lower, broken vegetation.
In August 1933, a motorcyclist named Arthur Grant claimed that he nearly hit the creature while riding his bicycle near the northeastern shore of the lake at about one o'clock at night. Grant claimed that he saw a small head attached to a long neck, and that the creature saw it and crossed the road and fled to the lake. Grant added that he got off the bike and followed the creature, but he only saw a ripple at the shore of the lake. However, some say that this incident is only a comic justification of a collision that occurred to Grant near the lake.
In another sighting from 1934, a young maid, Margaret Monroe, claimed to have watched the creature for 20 minutes, around 6:30 a.m. on June 5. ، Margaret was about 180 meters (200 yards) from the creature. She described it as having elephant-like skin, long neck, small head and two short front legs or flippers.، The viewing ended with the creature returning to the water. Ground sightings continued until 1963, when a low-quality film appeared, depicting the creature from afar.
Reaching our school is about to reach, and the monster is only less than five hundred meters away from them
Suddenly a man shouted, "Here's the Scottish flag, we're almost there at last."
Tom looked from the boat in the same direction, maybe only six hundred meters left
But things didn't last long and the monster started to speed up more and more This was really strange. After five minutes, the difference between him and the ship became two hundred meters, with three hundred meters left to reach Scotland. After another five minutes, he had already reached the ship. Then with a movement from his long tail he hit the deck of the ship, which moved and shook from the severity of the blow, some men died, but the ship is still in progress
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