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Napoleon in Egypt
- 'The Greatest Glory'
Engelsk Paperback
Napoleon in Egypt
- 'The Greatest Glory'
Engelsk Paperback

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Napoleon''s attack on Egypt in 1798 was the first on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. With 335 ships and 40,000 men, it was the largest long-distance seaborne force the world had ever seen. Napoleon''s assault was intended to be much more than a colonial adventure, however, for he took with him over one hundred and fifty scientists, mathematicians, artists and writers - a ''Legion of Culture'' - with a view to bringing Western civilization to ''backward'' Egypt.

Ironically, what these intellectuals discovered in Egypt would transform our knowledge of Western civilization and form the basis of Egyptology. But there were also setbacks. Nelson''s destruction of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile apparently put an end to Napoleon''s secret plans to follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and invade India.

Napoleon was just twenty-eight when he invaded Egypt and it was an episode which contained in embryo many seminal events of his later career and set the standard for his brilliant, ambitious and ultimately disastrous career.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
512
ISBN-13:
9781844139170
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1844139174
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2008
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2008
Forfatter(e):
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