Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a major engagement fought on 21 July 1798, during the French Invasion of Egypt. The battle took place near the village of Embabeh, across the Nile River from Cairo , but was named by Napoleon after the Great Pyramid of Giza visible nearly nine miles away.
Napoleon at the Pyramids in 1798, by Antoine-Jean Gros. On the day of the festival, Bonaparte addressed his troops, enumerating their exploits since the 1793 siege of Toulon and telling them: >From the English, famous for arts and commerce, to the hideous and fierce Bedouin, you have caught the gaze of the world. Soldiers, your destiny is fair...
More extensive damage was caused by the mining of some of the ruins for gold. [23] Reconstruction attempts since 1980 caused further damage, leading to alienation of the local communities. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Another source of damage is due to the site being open to visitors with many cases of people climbing the walls, walking over archaeological ...
"Napoleon didn't shoot for the pyramids, and the battle of the pyramids, so-called, was not fought at the base of the pyramids," he says. In fact, the attack in Egypt happened miles away from the ...
The victory caused elation in France, compounding the interest in Egypt (often referred to as first wave of "Egyptomania" [1]) that Napoleon's campaign in Egypt had already generated. [2] [1] This interest was in turn reflected in the art of turn of the century France, producing a number of works of art centered around Napoleon's military triumphs.
Napoleon's campaign had seen the French achieve a series of decisive victories which allowed the establishment of French domination over much of Northern and Central Italy. Although Napoleon had previous military experience, the campaign marked his first in command of a full army, and his victories led to great personal prestige and widespread ...
The Napoleonic looting of art (French: Spoliations napoléoniennes) was a series of confiscations of artworks and precious objects carried out by the French Army or French officials in the conquered territories of the French Republic and Empire, including the Italian Peninsula, Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries, and Central Europe.
The plundering of the pyramids of Meroë Giuseppe Ferlini (23 April 1797 – 30 December 1870 [ 1 ] ) was an Italian soldier turned treasure hunter , who robbed and desecrated the pyramids of Meroë .