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2. Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa - Wikipedia

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   Bonaparte Visits the Plague Victims in Jaffa (French: Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and painted in 1804 by Antoine-Jean Gros, portraying an event during the French invasion of Egypt. [1]

3. Siege of Jaffa - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Saint Nicholas Monastery, Jaffa - Wikipedia

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   Located in Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, near the harbour and facing the Mediterranean, the monastery consists of a large multi-story complex that includes an Armenian church and living quarters. The monastery is under the jurisdiction of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem , which rents out parts of the complex for residential and commercial ...

5. 12 ways to avoid obnoxious hotel fees - AOL

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   ThePointsGuy says that some chains or certain hotels in a chain will waive resort fees when you book using awards points. Read the blog post for a detailed discussion. 10.

6. Walls of Jaffa - Wikipedia

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   In the 10th century, Al-Muqaddasi described Jaffa as a small town, protected by a strong wall with iron gates. Constantin de Volney, the French politician and orientalist, who visited Jaffa on his journey to the east, reported it had walls twelve to fourteen feet high and three to five feet wide. [3] These walls were breached by Napoleon in ...

7. The Battle of Nazareth (Gros) - Wikipedia

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   It is believed that Napoleon didn't want too much publicity for the hero of the fight, for political reasons, since Junot was overtly republican. [5] On the unused canvas, Gros would paint one of his master works, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa , completed in 1804.