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The Battle of Nazareth is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Antoine-Jean Gros, from 1801. It represents the French Army, led by General Andoche Junot, in a battle where he defeated the Ottoman army during the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon. It is held at the Musée d'Arts de Nantes. [1]
Junot leading his troops against the Ottomans near Nazareth, in The Combat of Nazareth by Antoine-Jean Gros (1801) On 8 April 1799, during the ultimately unsuccessful Siege of Acre , Junot distinguished himself leading the vanguard of Kléber 's division against an Ottoman relief force five times larger, near the town of Nazareth , retreating ...
The Battle of Nazareth began on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon, which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought during the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.
This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [1] [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove ...
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
Napoleon Accepting the Surrender of Madrid (French: Capitulation de Madrid, le 4 décembre 1808) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. [1] [2] It depicts Napoleon, Emperor of France, accepting the surrender of Madrid, on 4 December 1808, during the Peninsular War. Napoleon is shown with his general staff receiving ...
The Shin Bet and the Israel Police arrested and charged a 19-year-old Nazareth resident of spying for Hezbollah during the war. [434] Israeli police arrested four Israeli civilians for illegally entering into Lebanon. [435] The IDF said that it shot down a drone outside Israel, above the Mediterranean Sea. [436]
After the war, he was tried by a Greek military court for war crimes. In 1946, Müller was convicted by a Greek court in Athens for the massacres of hostages for reprisals. He was sentenced to death on 9 December 1946 and executed by firing squad on 20 May 1947, [ 5 ] along with former General Bruno Bräuer , on the anniversary of the Axis ...