Napoleon and the French in Egypt and the Holy Land : : Articles Presented at the 2nd International Congress of Napoleonic Studies / / ed. by Aryeh Shmuelevitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Akgün, Seçil Karal,; Battesti, Michèle,; Beaucour, Fernand,; Berman, Ariel,; Bernède, Allain,; Biger, Gideon,; Cohen, Amnon,; Cooney, Mary Kathryn,; Dolev, Eran,; Feinsod, Moshe,; Gichon, Mordechai,; Grab, Walter,; Haman, Monika,; Haran, Alexander Yali,; Junkelmann, Marcus,; Mandelson, David,; Markham, J. David,; McCranie, Kevin D.,; McErlean, J. M. P.,; Rossi, Lauro,; Shamir, Shimon,; Shmuelevitz, Aryeh,; Shosenberg, James W.,; Smith, Helen S.,; Stanley, John,; Vernet, Jacques,
• HerausgeberIn: Shmuelevitz, Aryeh,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

This collection of essays by leading historians of the Napoleonic era is the product of the Second International Congress of Napoleonic Studies held in Israel between 4 and 11 July, 1999.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Honorary Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee -- Introduction: The Organization of the Congress -- Editor's Preface -- Articles: -- The Peculiarities of Napoleon's Oriental Campaign: An Introduction -- The Impact of the French Expedition to Egypt on Early 19th Century Ottoman Reforms -- La Bataille d'Aboukir et ses implications stratégiques -- La Bataille de Sediman du 7 octobre 1798 -- The Detroye Outpost: An Outpost on the Siege Perimeter of Acre -- L'Emploi tactique de la "mine" lors du siège de Saint-Jean d'Acre : un exemple de combat en mode dégradé (Campagne de Syrie, 1799) -- Napoleon's Expedition and the Return of Europe to the Middle East -- Napoleon and Jezzar: A Local Perspective -- Egypt was Worth a Turban: Bonaparte's Flirtation with Islam -- How Surgeon Larrey Treated General Caffarelli: A Case Study in the History of Military Medicine -- The Surgeon and the Emperor: A Humanitarian on the Battlefield -- Napoleon Bonaparte as Perpetuator and Destroyer of the Ideas of the French Revolution -- Joseph Sulkowski, Aide-de-Camp de Bonaparte en Égypte -- A Precursor of Bonaparte's Expedition to Egypt: Leibnitz, Author of the Consilium Aegyptiacum to Louis XIV -- Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign in Contemporary French Art -- The Operations and Effectiveness of the Ottoman Navy During Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, 1798-1801 -- The Napoleonic Re-Conquest of Corsica, 1796: A Necessary Preliminary for the Egyptian Expedition -- Chateaubriand et l'expédition de Napoleon Bonaparte en Terre-Sainte -- Napoleon's Own Rendering of His Expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land -- Egyptian Perceptions of Bonaparte's Expedition: The Bicentennial Debate -- The Emergence of the Eastern Question: Did Napoleon's Conquest of Egypt Beget the Involvement of the European Powers in the Middle East? -- The Battle of the Pyramids: Futile Victory -- Phélippeaux and Napoleon -- Polish Participation in Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition -- La Politique des Effectifs -- Napoleon in the Holy Land: Motives and Consequences, A Review of Research Presented at the 1999 International Napoleonic Society Congress in Israel -- List of Participants