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The Napoleonic army requested the help of the priests from the Armenian monastery, who provided medicine that was able to cure some of the soldiers. Napoleon personally thanked the Armenian patriarch and gifted him with his own tent and sword. [citation needed] The sick man with bandaged eyes on the right is suffering from blindness as well as ...
The siege of Jaffa was a military engagement between the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Ottoman forces under Ahmed al-Jazzar. On March 3, 1799, the French laid siege to the city of Jaffa, which was under Ottoman control. It was fought from March 3-7, 1799. On March 7, French forces managed to capture the city.
The French army's situation was critical – the British were threatening French control of Egypt after their victory at the Battle of the Nile, Murad Bey and his army were still in the field in Upper Egypt, and the generals Menou and Dugua were only just able to maintain control of Lower Egypt. The Ottoman peasants had common cause with those ...
After landing in Ottoman-controlled Egypt and capturing Alexandria on 2 July 1798, the French army led by General Bonaparte marched down the desert toward Cairo.They met the forces of the ruling Mamluks nine miles (15 kilometres) from the Pyramids and only four miles (6 kilometres) from Cairo.
When the French army of General Napoleon Bonaparte landed on the Egyptian coast in 1798, the country was controlled by a duumvirate, Murad Bey and Ibrahim Bey. Having defeated the other Mamluk leaders after a long struggle, they agreed to share power in 1785, with Ibrahim in charge of administrative tasks and Murad in command of the Mamluk army ...
When Napoleon invaded Egypt in July 1798, he brought more than just tens of thousands of soldiers. He also recruited more than 150 scientists, known as savants, to accompany him.
The French army's situation was critical – the British were threatening French control of Egypt after their victory at the Battle of the Nile, Murad Bey and his army were still in the field in Upper Egypt, and the generals Menou and Dugua were only just able to maintain control of Lower Egypt. The Egyptian peasants had common cause with those ...
The main column of the French army was hurriedly marched out of Alexandria after a rest of less than two days, ordered by Napoleon to march some 50 miles across mostly barren terrain, aiming for Ramaniyah, a village on the banks of the Nile, with the help of Egyptian guides, who had exaggerated the status of Damanhur, which was to be the main ...