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4 days ago · On July 1, 1798, Napoleon landed in Egypt with 400 ships and 54,000 men and proceeded to invade the country, as he had recently invaded Italy. But this Egyptian invasion was to be different. For, in addition to soldiers and sailors, Napoleon brought along 150 savants — scientists, engineers and scholars whose responsibility was to capture ...
4 days ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
- 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815, (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
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1 day ago · The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was a Napoleonic campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, executed by Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon proclaimed to "defend French trade interests" and to establish "scientific enterprise" in the region.
- 1 July 1798 – 2 September 1801, (3 years, 2 months and 1 day)
- Anglo-Ottoman victory, End of Mamluk rule in Egypt, Formal end of the Franco-Ottoman alliance, Failure of French expedition to Syria, Capitulation of French administration in Egypt
1 day ago · The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. [e]
- 2 May 1808 (sometimes 27 October 1807) – 17 April 1814, (5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
3 days ago · Napoleon and the British. The literature on the role of the French as ‘other’ in the formation of a British national identity in the eighteenth century is probably not as rich as many readers might think. (1) Indeed, the literature on French Anglophobia seems a little more sustained. (2) Semmel’s work, which looks at the impact of ...
5 days ago · Napoleon Bonaparte, often referred to simply as Napoleon, is one of the most iconic figures in history. As a military general and later Emperor of France, his impact on the world cannot be overstated. His strategic brilliance, political acumen, and immense ambition catapulted him to power and shaped the course of Europe in the early 19th ...
3 days ago · Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes s’inspire d’œuvres associées à des figures telles que celle de Pierre le Grand et évoque son habileté militaire au premier coup d’œil. Napoléon refusa de poser pour le portrait et dit à Jacques-Louis David : « Personne ne s’informe si les portraits des grands hommes sont ressemblants : il suffit ...
