Napoleon in Egypt: Battle of the Pyramids 1798

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In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte led a French expedition to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy province and deal a major blow to British interests in the Mediterranean. What followed was a campaign featuring legendary battles, ruthless occupation and immense hardship.
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đź“š Further reading:
“Bonaparte in Egypt” by J. Christopher Herold (1962) UK: uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781934757765 / US: bookshop.org/a/99532/9781934757765
“Napoleon in Egypt” by Paul Strathern (2007) UK: uk.bookshop.org/a/12275/9781844139170 / US: bookshop.org/a/99532/9780553385243

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  • @EpichistoryTv
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  • @Arctik39
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  • @jazhanay19
    I remember playing this campaign in Napoleon Total War. This is amazing.
  • @commanderkronos
    I thought it was just Napoleon shooting at the pyramids, but hey, Ridley Scott seems to think the same.
  • What a life this man he marched on Berlin, Cairo, Madrid, Moscow, Lisbon, Rome, Milan, Vienna, Warsaw.
  • @lukaswilhelm9290
    In just 6 days, Napoleon able to reorganized Malta. It's quite rare to see a military leader is also an excellent administrator.
  • @bman3794
    This video had more action than the battle scene in Ridley Scott’s movie when Napoleon went to Egypt. The entire “battle” consisted of Napoleon, shooting two cannons shots at the pyramids. I was so excited for this movie, but really, Scott just took something that had so much potential and flushed it down the toilet.
  • @TheGrandeCapo
    Napoleon's story has much more engaging plot than most (if not all) shows I've seen. And narration only makes it better.
  • 7:10 Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was also the father of famed French author Alexandre Dumas, the author of "The Three Musketeers". He used his father (who died in Napoleon's bad graces in his youth - the elder Dumas often verbally clashed with Napoleon during the campaign, so the latter let him rot for several years in a Neapolitan prison after he was captured returning from Egypt, before securing his release) as the model for the Count of Monte Cristo in the book of the same name. 23:40 The description of Talleyrand as "brilliant, urbane, and slippery" is probably the best description I've ever heard for him, other than Napoleon's infamous scatological tirade.
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  • @messimonyan
    Timing couldn’t have been better. The last couple of weeks I’ve been rewatching your Napoleonic Wars playlist and realized you guys completely skipped Egypt which was uncharacteristic of you. I thought “no chance they leave a gap like this in the timeline. Surely they are cooking something.” Lo and behold, you guys were indeed “cooking something”
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  • @Rildar
    A brilliant military genius. A tactical mad dog. One man, who irrevocably changed the course of human history before he was even 40, only rivaled by Alexander himself. As one of Anglo descent themselves, you can't help but have a tinge of admiration that mankind could put forth such a stalwart soul.
  • @ParidaenLars1998
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