The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #7 - The Egyptian Campaign
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Is it just me or are these shows gradually getting longer? 
When we last left Napoleon, he had concluded the Italian Campaign with the treaty of Campo Formio and was a national hero. In this episode we talk about the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-99:
- Too soon for his political move in France
- The invasion of England postponed
- In the footsteps of Alexander, off to Egypt!
- Taking and re-making Malta
- Reading the Qu’ran
- The Rosetta Stone
- The Battle of the Pyramids
- The Battle of the Nile
- Talleyrand’s Betrayal (the first of many)
- Into Syria (Israel)
- The Battles of Acre, Jaffa, Aboukir
- The execution of prisoners
- The sudden return to France!
In our next episode, we will watch with bated breath as Napoleon executes the coup of 18 Brumaire and becomes 1st Consul of France!
Please leave us comments on the show and you can now leave us AUDIO comments by clicking on this image:
And because too much discussion about Napoleon is never enough, I have set up a new forum for discussion about all things Napoleon here. Feel free to ask any questions you like and David and I will do out best to answer them in a timely fashion!
June 30th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Longer? Why Cameron, whatever do you mean?
I plead guilty as charged but hope that folks don’t mind too much. 
July 1st, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Dear Cameron and David,
You both did again a wonderful job, make your episodes as long as you want. You covered a lot of important stages during ‘Napoleon and Egypt’ and did a great job in showing the true Napoleon…I was surprised to hear about ‘the technology mistake’ of Napoleon, I didn’t know it. The next time we ‘meet’ will be when First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte marches into World History, although he is himself word history since the day he was born!
Continue your great work!
Vive l’Empereur!
Tim
July 1st, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Thanks Tim! Really appreciate the feedback as always. Good to know that someone other than David and I are enjoying this series!
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
great show guys!
However you did have one small, probably irrelevent mistake, but an annoying one nonetheless. When talking about Jaffa (yaffo in hebrew) you mentioned that its next to Tel-Aviv Israel’s capital. Well Israel’s capital is Jerusalem, not Tel-Aviv.
still this was just a minor matter in a otherwise great show…
Gidon
July 3rd, 2006 at 7:20 pm
I thought that as well Gidon but as David is very much my senior and he’s actually BEEN to the country, I dared not comment.
Thanks for keeping our facts straight!
September 20th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Thanks for another interesting show. I especially appreciate the effort to show some of Napoleon’s harsh Egyptian campaign decisions as something other than a heartless and pre-calculated bloodbath, the way it seems to be normally portrayed. He was human despite what anti-Bonapartists will say. Kudos.
December 13th, 2006 at 5:45 am
Well I’m not a history buff like you two but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. From someone who knows close to nothing about Napoleon, you’ve made learning about him extremely interesting and helped me through a few long workdays as well.
Keep up the good work!
February 4th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Dear Cameron and Markham,
Now, I’ve been trying to find this, but I havn’t met with much success: what plague were Napoleon’s troops afflicted with?
cheers!
Nicholas Stark
Philadelphia
February 10th, 2007 at 11:29 am
This qestion is really pointed more to Monsieur Markham. M. Markham, I was looking through your book, Napoleon’s Road to Glory, which I might add you so gratiously donated a signed copy of to my school, and I noticed a bit of trouble with your map in the front cover. It traces Napoleon’s route to Egypt as going between Sardinia and Africa, while the map provided in Chandler’s ‘The Campaignes of Napoleon’ has the route traced between Sardinia and Italy. Might I inquire which would be more accurate? It doesn’t seem to be a small enough discrepency to be negligable, so I woud appreciate any information you might offer to clear this matter up for me. Thank you. Keep these great podcasts coming!
-Stark of Philadelphia
July 24th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Have either of you gentlemen had a look at Juan Cole’s new book on Napoleon in Egypt?
Cole also has a blog for the book.