Egypt
- Exhibition: Napoleon In Egypt
syracuse.com (Katherine Rushworth) It's been said, especially recently, that history has a way of repeating itself. Armies invade and wars are waged year after year and century after century. As much as advances in science and technology can propel...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
CS Monitor (M.M. Bennett) The French arrived in Egypt on July 1 and by August they had taken Alexandria and marched across the desert to defeat the Mameluke army at the Battle of the Pyramids and at Cairo. Then, in a bout of indomitable energy and attention...
- Book Review: Napoleon’s Egypt
New York Times (Review by Tom Reiss) “Napoleon’s Egypt” by Juan Cole In early 1798 the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon...
- Saturday Trivia
Napoleon's Pyramids http://www.columbian.com/lifeHome/lifeHomeNews/02072007news101575.cfm Bill Dietrich often deals with events of historical significance. He wrote about the eruption of Mount St. Helens as a reporter for The Columbian in 1980 and...
- Napoleon In Egypt Subject Of New Exhibition
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/13609374.htmA new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Sciences has opened in Macon (Georgia, U.S.) called Napoleon in Egypt: "Napoleon Bonaparte is well-known for his military victories, his habit of placing...
Egypt
Book review: Napoleon in Egypt
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Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP)
"One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution was being exported through a series of stunning military victories in Italy. Casting a megalomaniac eye on the world map, Napoleon Bonaparte took 38,000 soldiers and set sail for the Orient as the first step towards wresting control of India from the British.
The full madness and magnificence of this expedition has long appealed to readers, and the latest to memorialise these Pharonic ambitions is Paul Strathern. What he has produced is a comprehensive and gripping read, as great an overview of war and hubris as can be managed in 400 pages.
Of Napoleon's adventures in Egypt there is much to say. Unusually for a would-be conqueror, Napoleon took with him 167 men of science and art who would bring European civilisation first to Egypt and ultimately to India and the world. With this force, Napoleon not only carried balloon-making technology and astronomical telescopes, but the only Arabic printing press in Europe.
Aside from being written with all the verve of a great adventure story, Napoleon In Egypt is also a shocking book. "
Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP)
"One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution was being exported through a series of stunning military victories in Italy. Casting a megalomaniac eye on the world map, Napoleon Bonaparte took 38,000 soldiers and set sail for the Orient as the first step towards wresting control of India from the British.
The full madness and magnificence of this expedition has long appealed to readers, and the latest to memorialise these Pharonic ambitions is Paul Strathern. What he has produced is a comprehensive and gripping read, as great an overview of war and hubris as can be managed in 400 pages.
Of Napoleon's adventures in Egypt there is much to say. Unusually for a would-be conqueror, Napoleon took with him 167 men of science and art who would bring European civilisation first to Egypt and ultimately to India and the world. With this force, Napoleon not only carried balloon-making technology and astronomical telescopes, but the only Arabic printing press in Europe.
Aside from being written with all the verve of a great adventure story, Napoleon In Egypt is also a shocking book. "
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- Exhibition: Napoleon In Egypt
syracuse.com (Katherine Rushworth) It's been said, especially recently, that history has a way of repeating itself. Armies invade and wars are waged year after year and century after century. As much as advances in science and technology can propel...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
CS Monitor (M.M. Bennett) The French arrived in Egypt on July 1 and by August they had taken Alexandria and marched across the desert to defeat the Mameluke army at the Battle of the Pyramids and at Cairo. Then, in a bout of indomitable energy and attention...
- Book Review: Napoleon’s Egypt
New York Times (Review by Tom Reiss) “Napoleon’s Egypt” by Juan Cole In early 1798 the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon...
- Saturday Trivia
Napoleon's Pyramids http://www.columbian.com/lifeHome/lifeHomeNews/02072007news101575.cfm Bill Dietrich often deals with events of historical significance. He wrote about the eruption of Mount St. Helens as a reporter for The Columbian in 1980 and...
- Napoleon In Egypt Subject Of New Exhibition
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/13609374.htmA new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Sciences has opened in Macon (Georgia, U.S.) called Napoleon in Egypt: "Napoleon Bonaparte is well-known for his military victories, his habit of placing...