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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.
"When China wakes, it will shake the world" is the epigraph on title page of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's China Wakes, noted as "attributed to Napoleon." The note for that page gives no source but says the quote "apparently does not appear in any of his collected writings," and he "is said" (without a reference as to who said it) to ...
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...
"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 is shown with his general staff receiving a delegation from the city. [3] It depicts the scene in a grand manner style that favours the French viewpoint. [4] It was exhibited at the 1810 Paris Salon, along with the painter's The Battle of the Pyramids,depicting Napoleon during the Egyptian campaign.
A tourist boat in front of Notre Dame in central Paris ahead of its formal reopening for the first time since it was ravaged by fire in 2019. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.