Napoleon in Egypt (73 page)

Read Napoleon in Egypt Online

Authors: Paul Strathern

Tags: #History, #Military, #Naval

BOOK: Napoleon in Egypt
13.83Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

16. Denon,
Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte
, Vol. 1, p. 39.
Return to text

17. Desvernois,
Mémoires
, p. 110.
Return to text

18. Cited in ibid., p. 111.
Return to text

19. François,
Journal du Capitaine François, dit le Dromadaire d’Égypte
, Vol. 1, p. 195. During this period in Egypt François was only a corporal; he would be promoted to sergeant in November 1798, only later becoming an officer.
Return to text

20. Ghorbal,
The Beginnings of the Egyptian Question
, p. 49.
Return to text

21. Herold,
Bonaparte in Egypt
, p. 81.
Return to text

22. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 438.
Return to text

23. Ibid., Vol. 4, p. 223.
Return to text

24. Elgood,
Bonaparte’s Adventure in Egypt
, p. 103.
Return to text

25. Las Cases,
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
, Vol. 1, p. 131.
Return to text

26. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 446.
Return to text

27. Las Cases,
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
, Vol.1, p. 131.
Return to text

28. Ibid., p. 132.
Return to text

29. Desvernois,
Mémoires
, p. 108.
Return to text

30. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 4, p. 236.
Return to text

31. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 441.
Return to text

32. Bernoyer,
Avec Bonaparte en Égypte
, p.54, and Vertray,
Journal d’un officier de l’armée d’Égypte
, p. 48.
Return to text

33. Vertray,
Journal d’un officier de l’armée d’Égypte
, p. 49.
Return to text

34. De La Jonquière,
L’Expédition en Égypte 1798–1801
, Vol. 2, p. 167.
Return to text

35. This anecdote appears in one form or another in Elgood,
Bonaparte’s Adventure in Egypt
, p. 113, and several other sources such as Herold,
Bonaparte in Egypt
, and a number of memoirs.
Return to text

36. Desvernois,
Mémoires
, p. 118.
Return to text

37. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 442.
Return to text

38. Desvernois,
Mémoires
, p. 118.
Return to text

39. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 442–3.
Return to text

40. Grandjean,
Journaux sur l’Expédition de l’Égypte
, p. 75.
Return to text

41. Ibid., p. 76.
Return to text

42. Bourrienne,
Mémoires
, Vol. 1–2, p. 260.
Return to text

43. Sadoun-Goupil,
Le Chimiste Claude-Louis Berthollet
, p. 255. This incident is confirmed by several sources, though this particular information comes from an unpublished letter written over twenty years after the event by Berthollet’s fellow savant Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to Cuvier, who was preparing a eulogy on the great chemist:
Bibliothèque d’Institut, Fonds Cuvier, liasse
206. The behavior described was said to have been characteristic.
Return to text

44. Bourrienne,
Mémoires
, Vol. 1–2, p. 260.
Return to text

45. Turc,
Chronique d’Égypte 1798–1804
, p. 22.
Return to text

46.
Correspondance de l’armée française en Égypte
, pp. 62–3.
Return to text

47. Bourrienne,
Mémoires
, Vol. 1–2, p. 261.
Return to text

 

Chapter VII: The Battle of the Pyramids

 

1. François,
Journal du Capitaine François, dit le Dromadaire d’Égypte
, Vol.1, p. 202.
Return to text

2. Cited in La Jonquière,
L’Expédition en Égypte 1798–1801
, Vol. 2, p. 162.
Return to text

3. François,
Journal du Capitaine François, dit le Dromadaire d’Égypte
, Vol.1, pp. 203–4.
Return to text

4. Cited in Thiry,
Bonaparte en Égypte
, p. 145.
Return to text

5. Denon,
Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte
, Vol. 1, p. 40.
Return to text

6. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 446.
Return to text

7. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, Vol. 6, p. 318.
Return to text

8. Ibid., p. 314.
Return to text

9. Herold,
Bonaparte in Egypt
, p. 8.
Return to text

10. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 440, cited and confirmed in Desvernois,
Mémoires,
note on p. 114. See also above, Ch. 5, n.14.
Return to text

11. Details of Murad Bey’s reaction, the conversations at the
divan
and the reactions in the streets appear in Turc,
L’Expédition des Français en Égypte,
pp. 25, 27–30. This does not match with the edition translated by Gaston Wiet published in Cairo in 1950. The two translations frequently differ, with some details appearing in one but not in the other. This suggests that there may have been more than one manuscript, as indeed there was more than one translator (I know of three, all of whom differ); any of the translators or copyists involved in these different versions could well have chosen to leave out details they considered too fanciful or historically irrelevant.
Return to text

12. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, Vol. 6, p. 9.
Return to text

13. Ibid., p. 13.
Return to text

14. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 448.
Return to text

15. These and the following figures appear in ibid., p. 448.
Return to text

16. Cited in Herold,
Bonaparte in Egypt
, p. 89, note.
Return to text

17. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 450.
Return to text

18. Cited in La Jonquière,
L’Expédition en Égypte 1798–1801
, Vol. 2, p. 190.
Return to text

19. See Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 449, collated with Vol. 4, p. 249, which gives the figures.
Return to text

20. Cited in La Jonquière,
L’Expédition en Égypte
, Vol. 2, p. 188.
Return to text

21. François,
Journal du Capitaine François, dit le Dromadaire d’Égypte
, Vol.1, p. 206.
Return to text

22. Vertray,
Journal d’un officier de l’armée d’ Égypte
, pp. 59–60.
Return to text

23. Reynier’s report to his commander-in-chief two days after the battle, cited in La Jonquiere,
L’Expédition en Égypte 1798–1801
, Vol. 2, p. 189.
Return to text

24. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 4, p. 251.
Return to text

25. Desvernois,
Mémoires
, pp. 123–4.
Return to text

26. Ibid., p. 124.
Return to text

27. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques,
Vol. 6, p. 17.
Return to text

28. Ibid.
Return to text

29. Millet,
Souvenirs de la campagne d’Égypte
, pp. 51–2.
Return to text

30. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, Vol. 6, p. 17.
Return to text

31. Turc,
Chronique d’Égypte 1798–1804
, p. 24.
Return to text

32. Ibid., pp. 23–4.
Return to text

33. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 29, p. 451.
Return to text

34. Ibid.
Return to text

35. Marmont, Duc de Raguse,
Mémoires
(9 vols., published posthumously, Paris, 1857), Vol. 1, p. 384.
Return to text

36. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, Vol. 6, p. 20.
Return to text

37. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 4, p. 252.
Return to text

38. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 451.
Return to text

 

Chapter VIII: Cairo

 

1. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 4, p. 254.
Return to text

2. Malus,
Souvenirs de l’Expédition de l’Égypte
, pp. 65–6.
Return to text

3. François,
Journal du Capitaine François, dit le Dromadaire d’Égypte
, Vol. 1, p. 211.
Return to text

4. Brigadier Detroye,
Journal
(unpublished), in
Archives Historiques du ministère de la Guerre: Correspondance de l’armée d’Égypte: Mémoires Historiques
, cited in Charles-Roux,
Bonaparte gouverneur d’Égypte
, p. 256.
Return to text

5. Ibid.
Return to text

6. Malus,
Souvenirs de l’Expédition de l’Égypte
, p. 68–9.
Return to text

7. Denon,
Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte
, Vol. 1, p. 82.
Return to text

8. Ibid.
Return to text

9. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, pp. 23, 26.
Return to text

10. Turc,
L’Expédition des Français en Égypte
, p. 49.
Return to text

11. Napoleon,
Correspondance
, Vol. 5, p. 574.
Return to text

12. El-Djabarti,
Merveilles biographiques et historiques, ou Chroniques
, Vol. 6, p. 25.
Return to text

Other books

5 Bad Moon by Anthony Bruno
Firestone by Christian, Claudia Hall
The Disciple by Michael Hjorth
Safety Net by Keiko Kirin
Winter's Camp by Jodi Thomas
Black and White by Jackie Kessler
Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman
The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson