Posts by Pamela
Napoleon in Egypt, Part 2
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign was a military disaster,* but the Army of the Orient wasn’t the only army that Napoleon brought with him to Egypt. A commission of some 160 savants–scientists, artists, engineers, and scholars–accompanied the invading army, bringing with them virtually every book on Egypt available, dozens of crates of scientific instruments and a printing…
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History in the Margins Turns Six, or Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
Happy birthday to us! Six years ago, I started writing History in the Margins with a blog post that asked the question “Why another history blog?” * It was a question I had struggled with for a good year before I decided to jump into the blogosphere. I didn’t have a time or place that…
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And Speaking of Napoleon in Egypt…
While writing my last blog post I was stunned to realize that I’ve never written about Napoleon’s invasion of Europe here on the Margins. I’ve hinted around the edges of the subject in posts on the Rosetta Stone and Tipu Sultan. But I’ve never written about the invasion itself. Which is kind of amazing given…
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