Napoleon Bonaparte: The Egyptian Campaign

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In 1798, a vast armada left the French port of Toulon on a mysterious military expedition. Some 40,000 soldiers and 10,000 sailors were accompanied by 167 scholars, who had been called upon by general Napoleon Bonaparte. One week before they sailed, their destination was revealed to them: Egypt, land of the pharaohs, which had captivated the imagination of the Europe of the Enlightenment.

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S1 O1 - The Conquest
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1 stycznia 2017
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The Directoire had ordered Napoleon Bonaparte to threaten English assets in the Indies by planning a lasting occupation of Egypt. But the country had many surprises in store for all on the mission. We follow this military expedition through the eyes of two young scientists, Villiers and Jollois, who spent three long years enthusiastically trying to spread the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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S1 O2 - The Discoveries
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Between the cultural shock, the divergence of interests between the military and scientific communities, the epic combat with Mamelukes and Ottomans, popular uprisings, and outbreaks of the plague, this was an expedition to remember. It ended in stinging military defeat, but would always remain a great scientific triumph, marking the birth of a new science: Egyptology.
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