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Napoleon's Mideast campaign still contentious, two centuries on


Napoleon s Mideast campaign still contentious, two centuries on
AFP
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C-rear) visits Napoleon s tomb at the Invalides in Paris on November 26, 2014
Napoleon Bonaparte s bloody campaign in Egypt and Palestine, which marked the start of modern European colonialism in the Middle East, remains contentious two centuries after the French emperor s death.
The Corsican general set sail eastwards with 300 ships in 1798, aiming to conquer Egypt and block a crucial route between Britain and its colonial territories in India.
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Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte-Wyse (R), a descendant of Napoleon, poses with a cannon retrieved from one of the general s sunken ships in Alexandria ....

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