War of the Second Coalition: Egypt and Syria 800km 500miles 6 5 Jaffa 4 Cairo 3 Alexandria 2 Malta 1 The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle...
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The Battle of the Pyramids (French: La Bataille des Pyramides) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. It depicts the Battle...
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Imbaba (category Districts of Giza)
access to rooftops. The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a battle fought on July 21, 1798, between the French army in Egypt...
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French Revolutionary Wars (redirect from Wars of the French Revolution)
to drop out of the war. Meanwhile, Napoleon's forces annihilated a series of Egyptian and Ottoman armies at the battles of the Pyramids, Mount Tabor...
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Battle of the Pyramids, July 21, 1798 is an early 19th century drawing by French painter François-André Vincent. Done in black ink and graphite on washed...
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that from the top of these pyramids, 40 centuries of history contemplate you." This was the start of the so-called Battle of the Pyramids, a French victory...
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Louis Desaix (category Generals of the First French Empire)
to the expeditionary force intended to invade Egypt. It was his division which bore the brunt of the Mamluk attack at the Battle of the Pyramids, and...
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Egypt by the Battle of the Pyramids. By 24 July, the British fleet was resupplied and, having determined that the French must be somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
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with the sun in its eternal round. As of 2008, some 135 pyramids had been discovered in Egypt, most located near Cairo. While African pyramids are commonly...
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Paiute War (redirect from Battle of Lake Pyramid)
and the Native Americans were extorting two cattle a week from them. In 1857, Major William Ormsby (who later died in the First Battle of Pyramid Lake)...
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Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon I the Great of the French bibliography)
Khit against the Mamluks, Egypt's ruling military caste. This helped the French practise their defensive tactic for the Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July...
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July and took the city. Napoleon's army proceeded to march against the Mameluke armies in Cairo and met them at the Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July. Facing...
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The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but...
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amongst dozens of other temples, smaller pyramids, and general construction projects—four other massive pyramids were built: the Step pyramid of Saqqara (believed...
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Louis-François Lejeune (category Recipients of the Order of the Sword)
(1804); The Pyramids (1806); and Passage of the Rhine in 1795 (1824). In the historical novel The Battle, Lejeune is a main character. The Art of War[s]...
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Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (category Pupils of Jacques-Louis David)
d'Honneur at the Boulogne camp (1806), A Battle of the Pyramids (1806) and the 4m by 6m The Triumph of the French people on 10 August (1799, won the first prize...
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Napoleon (2023 film) (category Films set in the 18th century)
and the two eventually marry. Despite their vigorous sex life, they bear no children. In Egypt, he prevails again at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798...
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square was named for the Rue des Pyramides, the street leading into it, itself named for the Battle of the Pyramids, a Napoleonic victory achieved in Egypt...
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painter's The Battle of the Pyramids depicting Napoleon during the Egyptian campaign. Today both works are in the collection of the Palace of Versailles...
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of 38,000 July 21: Wins Battle of the Pyramids against Mamelukes in Egypt July 24: Fall of Cairo August 3: Under the command of Admiral Nelson, the British...
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Greek pyramids, also known as the Pyramids of Argolis, refers to several ancient structures located in the plains of Argolid, Greece. The best known of these...
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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
criticisms of Napoleon's leadership and discussed the possibility of refusing to march beyond Cairo. Dumas soon participated in the Battle of the Pyramids (following...
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commemorates the victory in 1798 of Napoleon's Armée d'Orient over the Mamluks of Murad Bey in the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt. In 2020, with the COVID-19...
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Infantry square (redirect from Breaking the square)
were seen at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806), the Battle of Pultusk (1806), the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (1811) and the First Battle of Krasnoi (August...
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defeated the Ottoman forces during the Battle of the Pyramids (1798). Scientists and linguists thoroughly explored Egypt. Weeks later, the British fleet...
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sea the Royal Navy was the dominant part of the allied naval power, and succeeded in destroying French naval power in a series of major sea battles culminating...
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Antoine-Jean Gros (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
Syria, he ordered the poisoning (with laudanum) of about fifty of his plague-infected men. In 1810, his Madrid and Napoleon at the Pyramids (Versailles) show...
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Eagle B) The City (3:56) The Battle on the Pyramid (6:42) A Hero's Theme (The Legend of Dar) (2:56) Heroic Friends (4:30) Escape From the Pyramid (2:40)...
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Michel Rigo (category Artists from the Republic of Genoa)
Louis-François Lejeune's Battle of the Pyramids and Antoine-Jean Gros’ Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. Most of the contemporary paintings...
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Directory. The French Army under General Berthier enters Rome (February 10, 1798) General Bonaparte at the Battle of the Pyramids (July 21, 1798) The French...
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