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    Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay, later Abdallah de Menou, (3 September 1750 – 13 August 1810) was a French statesman and general of Napoleon...
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    between the army of Napoleon's French First Republic under General Jacques-François Menou and the British expeditionary corps under Sir Ralph Abercromby....
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    d'infanterie de ligne : 3 battalions, 1800 men in total Commander: Général Jacques-Francois Menou Numbers: 5200 men Made up of the following regiments: 22e demi-brigade...
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    three-quarters of those 3,000 men died of indigestion. — Charles François, Journal du capitaine François dit le "Dromadaire d'Egypte", P.359 Sir Sidney Smith dispatched...
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    out-gunned then surrendered. The remaining French troops in Egypt under Jacques-François Menou disheartened by this failure, retired to Alexandria. With General...
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    d'Hautpoul saw at once that it might be important and informed General Jacques-François Menou, who happened to be at Rosetta. The find was announced to Napoleon's...
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    June 1800. Command of the Army in Egypt fell to Jacques-François Menou. Isolated and out of supplies, Menou surrendered to the British in 1801. After the...
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  • 2004 Madrid train bombings Ali Mech – 13th-century tribal chief Jacques-François Menou – French general under Napoleon and military governor of Egypt Abdoulaye...
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    edited the official journal there, the Décade Égyptienne. General Jacques François Menou sent him back to France. On his passage, he was captured by a British...
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    in Egypt. By August 1801, the remaining French forces of General Jacques-François Menou withdrew from Egypt. The period between 1801 and 1805 was, effectively...
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    months, later every two weeks a new president was chosen: 1789 – Jacques-François Menou, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier 1790 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte...
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    an attempted French counter-attack at Alexandria, 21 March 1801. Jacques-François Menou had arrived from Cairo and was determined to defeat the British...
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    France. An "Extraordinary Giunta" was placed in charge under General Jacques François Menou. Tuscany was divided into the départements of Arno, Méditerranée...
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    and were unsure about the military commander of Paris, General Jacques-François Menou. Barras decided to turn to military commanders in his entourage...
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    they were besieged. On 30 August 1801 the French general Abdullah Jacques-François Menou offered to surrender and proposed terms, which were considered,...
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    During the nights of Vendémiaire 12–13 (October 4–5), General Jacques-François Menou was tasked with putting down the royalist rebels and keep them from...
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    Egypt after Kléber's death. After the battle unwisely begun by Jacques-François Menou, general Damas was ill-treated in the reports back to Paris and...
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    crossroads at El Rahmaniya, thus cutting off the French general, Jacques-François Menou, from the interior of Egypt. The British force consisted of 5,310...
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    Canope on 21 March 1801 resulted in a French repulse. The French under Menou, disheartened by this failure, retired to Alexandria. With Abercromby's...
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    under such generals as François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Charles François Duhoux and Jacques-François Menou. On 28 November 1793...
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    However, Kléber was assassinated later that year and his successor, Jacques-François Menou, was considered a much weaker leader. Le général Kléber victorieux...
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  • (général de division) Jean-Baptiste Pierre Menne (général de division) Jacques-François Menou, baron de Boussay (général de division) Charles-Nicolas Méquillet...
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    Egypt and Syria, commanding a brigade in the division of Jacques-François Menou. After Menou was wounded taking Alexandria, Vial replaced him as division...
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    François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig (/ləˈfɛvrə/ lə-FEV-rə, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), was a French military...
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  • Napoleon Bonaparte (1798–99), Jean Baptiste Kléber (1799–1800), and Jacques-François Menou (1800–01) holding de facto governing power. 146 Lokmacı Hacı Ebubekir...
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    Dominique Piron de La Vienne and routed. The advance guard under Jacques-François Menou held its ground for a long time, but many Republican units from...
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  • lieutenant colonel of the 12th Chasseurs à Cheval, its colonel was Jacques-François Menou. Bonnaud became a lieutenant in the regiment on 10 March 1792 and...
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    Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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    over the departure of the Mesdames that was ended by the statesman Jacques-François Menou joking about the Assembly's preoccupation with the actions of "two...
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    corps into two columns. The first, commanded by himself and seconded by Menou and Mangin, was to attack Chemillé directly from the north. The second,...
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