human
The men who will write my life will not understand why I was so anxious to take this wretched little place. Ah, if I had taken it as I hoped!
gpt
And if you had taken it?
human
If I had taken it, replied Bonaparte, seizing his hand,
gpt
I should have found the treasures of the pasha in the city and arms for three hundred thousand men; I would have aroused and armed all Syria; I would have marched upon Damascus and Aleppo; I would have swelled my army with all the malcontents; I would have announced the abolition of servitude and the tyrannical rule of the pashas to the people; I would have reached Constantinople with my armed hordes; I would have overthrown the Turkish Empire; I would have founded a new and vast empire in the Orient which would have fixed my place in history; and perhaps I should have returned to Paris by way of Adrianople and Vienna, after having humbled the house of Austria.