General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt ...

Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte came to prominence as a brilliant military commander during the French Revolution. After taking power in Paris in November 1799, Napoleon made ...

“But it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.” There is no evidence that French invaders launched artillery at the pyramids, or that Napoleon’s troops shot the nose off the ...

While Bonaparte waited for the right moment ... It was a meeting between the Europe of the future and the Egypt of the past. HORWARD: Napoleon just organized his army into five gigantic squares.

In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte sailed with a French army to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy Ottoman province and deal a major blow to British ...

One of the most fascinating figures to ever live, Napoleon Bonaparte is the subject of a ... “I am nothing. In Egypt I was a Mussulman; here I shall be a Catholic.” Whether Napoleon ever ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is recognized as one of the greatest military commanders of all time. He brought Revolutionary France back from the brink of destruction with his Italian campaign in 1796 and 1797.

The life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte do not seem like a laughing ... When Napoleon’s army is on the march in Egypt, he hears that Josephine is cheating on him and decides to go back home ...