cbr18bingo Maps cbr18bingo – Maps I know far more about Napoleon’s later career than his earlier one, so this was pretty much all news to me. Seems that after his initial successes in various battles in the Italian states, the French government decided that he was just the man to tackle a challenge that they had had their eye on for some time, obtaining access to India via the east end of the Mediterranean. Some sort of short cut through Egypt seemed just […]
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole