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Napoleon in Egypt Part 2 Early Access (Patreon)

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2024-02-23 18:22:22
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2024-03-01 18:23:16
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Dear Patrons, 

I'm very pleased to share Napoleon in Egypt Part 2 - The Siege of Acre!

Congratulations to Patrick and Mike of PMF for a brilliant episode, and big thanks to HistoryMarche for the map of Acre. 

Typos for Merch is in effect. As a reminder - typos are small mistakes that we have missed, like spellings or dates. If you're first to spot one that needs to be fixed, you'll get any item of merch from our store as a thank you. 

We've got some new credits at the end of the video, to fit our upcoming rebrand, and we're now reading out the names of a few lucky Patrons at the end of the video! The credits are still work in progress - let us know what you think. 

I hope you enjoy the video, and thanks again for your amazing support.  

Toby

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Melkor

Viva la France

Marcos Moguel

Just in time for weekend chill, thanks!

Pierre Arnaud

Thanks Toby. Impatient to follow the rest of the campaign 💥

Alex Lower

Amazing video as always. The music, sound, and visual effects (heatwave) were particularly excellent here!

Eric Hu

Would love for you all to cover the Coup of 18 Brumaire as I have no idea what happened and I get all my history from this period from this channel. Glad to read you guys are indeed covering it.

Finn McCabe

Wow! And I thought the Egyptian campaign was just Napoleon firing some cannons at the pyramids and then going away home because of Josephine. Glad to see I was wrong. Another great vid as usual EHTV. Can’t wait for the 2nd coalition and 18 Brumaire.

MarbleHit

the credits were great toby and the video top quality as always:D

Taha Addam

Now we await for Napoleons seizure of power! Awesome stuff you guys, excited for what comes next! ❤️

Abdulrahman Taha

At 12:51 the caption goes haywire and a long Noooo covers the whole screen XD

Kamono

If Kleber could have returned to France, it would have been a huge future asset for Napoleon. Even if their relationship would not have been on very good terms i guess.

Brian Pavillar

Was General d'Estaing at Aboukir? I thought he died before the Egypt campaign began.

Flint and Ball

Toby mentioned in the newsletter that this is happening.

Flint and Ball

Another well made video sir, I enjoy the new format. Regarding his handling of prisoners at Jaffa. I’ve always found it a difficult one. Terrible to kill them, foolish to let them go and impossible to maintain them. I imagine if the shoe were on the other foot however they would have had no qualms in executing the French under a jihad? I wonder if that and the murder of the messenger played into his mind? I suppose we will never know.

Walide

Very good video as ever. I’m just very sad you did not quote the name of the scientist who translated the Rosetta Stone. His name is Champollion. His discovery was incredible. The way this Frenchman achieved that deserve at least a mention.

Gage Hardesty

I will say The Battle of Mount Tabor is something I never heard of before, I find that astonishing that Napoleon could easily thwart a massive Ottoman Army thanks to the Frenchman's experience, and yeah even though the military campaign was a defeat the scientific study of Egypt was a success in reality, but I was just a little profounded that you left out Davout for his role at Aboukir, but nevertheless it was Egypt that became the new seeds that laid out Napoleon's path, first with the soldiers of which he treated fairly and gained their hearts from the Bubonic plaque, then second with decisive victories against the Ottomans first at the Battle of Mount Tabor then with Aboukir, and finally his hard call for some of his brutality against the Ottomans, these assurances as well as the campaign itself became the background for the 1952 Egyptian Revolution against the Imperialists, this is why Napoleon is the central figure of everything for without Napoleon we would never have the world we have today.

Gage Hardesty

Also forgot to mention that during this time in Napoleon before and after he sets out for the Ottomans he finds an area that would one day be known as the Suez Canal, so fun fact to know.

Gage Hardesty

Found a typo, at 2:05 you mentioned that the Ottoman army have been held up for 10 days when seeing it it's 12 days as seen 8th of February to 20th of February (which this latter date is my birthday)

Gage Hardesty

I think the date for what you mentioned was Napoleon's greatest crime was I think a day later than what you typed about Napoleon not knowing what to do with the Ottoman prisoners.

Gage Hardesty

Ok another typo in 6:44 "Pasha Al-Djezzar" was the name you had down but in reality his name is "Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar" for his actual real name Toby.

Gage Hardesty

Ok I think a there's a typo around 21:24 it said Napoleon made the proclamation to the Army around August 1st, 1799 when he was still at battle so I think August 2nd is when he said that but I could be wrong if it was the first of August that he said that.

Medin Burnic

This was an amazing video, Toby! Great watch on a Friday. Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign was indeed tricky for the man, and often left him with very few options. Siege warfare is also fascinating. Very much looking forward to Napoleon's seizure of power! This soundtrack is also one of the best. Represents the situation perfectly. For the credits, looks good, but I'm not sure if I prefer the old or new.. I would suggest experimenting more. Personally, I do like how the presentation of the credits matches the topic and theme of the video. I loved the credits on Kolchak and Eylau.

Gage Hardesty

This latter one I found was for the Battle of Aboukir

Sean Mac

The only thing I have spotted so far that I would advise changing is at 21:50 I would either remove the word New from that sentence or have a greater pause between New and Second, because right now it comes out a little awkwardly

Marcus poopsicle

Another campaign finished! Thank you for all the work that you guys do. Your videos are what birthed my fascination with Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. I owe you infinite gratitude! I can't wait to finally see the 2nd coalition in your style, with time of course.

John Dominguez

Ugh, such great content. Proud to be a contributor. Was thinking, maybe we try to tackle Tokugawa of Japan's rise to power. But keep doing Napoleon. Just cant get enough of this content!

Dan.Gryn

Wonderful! Thank you!

Yatty

Would have liked for Mount Tabor to receive the more detailed tactical treatment over Aboukir since it's a much more tactically interesting and dramatic victory (in my opinion) than Napoleon linearly steamrolling the Army of Rhodes into non-existence, but it's understandable given Aboukir decisively ended the first Ottoman attempt to recoup Egypt, while Mount Tabor was merely a necessary step to that. Still, Napoleon bluffing the Ottomans into thinking he had them surrounded by raiding their camp and splitting his forces, charging and routing them once they had become confused and disordered, and chasing what did not immediately disintegrate all the way to the banks of the Jordan where that Ottoman core suffered terrible losses from drowning in the swollen river and from getting stuck in the muddy bank (and then massacred like sitting ducks)... that's arguably the most ridiculous tactical bamboozle of Napoleon's military record. Without these particulars implicating how terrifying and morale-shattering Mount Tabor must have felt from the Ottoman perspective, I don't know if it's that clear why this rout in one battle was such a traumatic disaster for the gigantic Army of Damascus that it did not rally and recover to seriously roll the iron dice for the rest of 1799.

MarbleHit

Toby just one suggestion that i would like to share with you:D. At 6:44, exactly when charles nove is doing this incredibly ominous voice and the overall terrifying theme in the background talking about Pasha Al-Djezzar, i think it would be fitting for the image to be constantly zooming in his face,after the xray graphic. It would be so spooky!

EpicHistoryTV

Happy Birthday for last week! We'll look into this one...

EpicHistoryTV

Both are acceptable English versions of the name.

EpicHistoryTV

These are all estimates - we use a different source, and think the talk of 10,000 drowned is not reliable. It's probably more men than were in the Ottoman army.

Knottingham

he was called that because he cited that he was “inspired by allah to slay an enemy of the prophet”

Gage Hardesty

Yeah but just be noteworthy that there's a "D" in Jazzar so just to clarify.

Y.R. Music

Anyone else think that the massacre of Jaffa was completely justified? They killed a messenger and displayed his head. What were the expecting? Not to mention that among the ottoman garrisson, there were also about a thousand men from the garrisson of el-Arish.

Sergei

Are you going to do the coup de tat of 18 Brumaire and the Battle of Marengo next?

Gage Hardesty

You know call me a little bias about this but I think that the intro thumbnail shouldn't just be called just "The Siege of Acre" but how about "Napoleon's Last Stand" for Napoleon in Egypt part 2, just a little noteworthy since it'll be the last time he sees Egypt

Gage Hardesty

Also I did the look on how big the Ottoman force was for Aboukir and it wasn't 4,000 but merely 20,000 which explains the 10,000 drowned men that were mentioned in my previous comments

Gage Hardesty

4,000 men as you mentioned was how much men they had when they surrendered at Aboukir.

Gage Hardesty

He's obviously going to make it at some point, because we as Patreons wanted the series on Napoleon to be complete before jumping ahead to new topics.

Uaid Ez Zahhar

Possible typo: Would El Arish not have delayed Buonaparte for 5 days rather than 10? The siege lasted 12 days (from 8-II-1799 to 20-II-1799), and Buonaparte only arrived with his main army to be held up (as shown in the video) in 15-II-1799, so 5 days before El Arish's capitulation.

Uaid Ez Zahhar

I found the typo! It was not A messenger that was sent to Jaffa, but TWO messengers (A colonel and a trumpeter who went together)! They were not just decapitated, but also castrated by the Turks before they displayed the officer's head on the wall.

Brandon Feazell

Another excellent video about Napoleon! I'm so excited and yet so bummed that you are almost done with the Napoleonic Wars. Perhaps you guys could revisit your Waterloo video and re-make it into a two or three part series in which you include Ligny, Quatre Bras, AND Waterloo? :)

Luca Schneider

Can I ask for the name of the song that starts at 21:17? :)

EpicHistoryTV

I think we will at some point, but after a little Napoleon break (see our post after the last poll for details!)

EpicHistoryTV

We are going to change this calculation, but from 10 to 11 days. That's the delay to Nap's plans as calculated by Chandler and Paul Strathern. (8-19, with the city occupied on 20 Feb).

EpicHistoryTV

You are correct, there were two men, and both were killed. I think it's probably accurate enough to talk about one messenger - the trumpeter would have been his aide/runner/signaller. This one is tricky to fix now, but I'll see what we can do.

Uaid Ez Zahhar

So... no typo? If not, trust me that I shall do as I did in the Eylau vid (watch the video 10,000 times, comment every single inaccuracy I think I might have spotted even in the pixels, then realise someone found the typo ten days ago)

Uaid Ez Zahhar

Is the typo that at the 16:20 caption "I missed my destiny at Acre - Napoleon to his Brother, Lucien" Brother should be in lower case since it is a common noun (sry if I say the specifics like common noun incorrectly, I am from Spain, and we call it 'nombre común' and common noun is the most direct translation), but it is in upper case for some reason? Or perhaps that the Parthenopean Republic never controlled Sicily? Or maybe the fact that the Parthenopean Republic had already been dissolved by August (King Ferdinand crushed the republic on 13th June while the news sent to Napoleon appear to be post-Novi, or in late August)?

Francesco Piccoli

Superb video! Napoleon serie it's one of the best! Can't wait for the Second Italian Campaign 😉👀

c_green

In February 1799 (map at opening) the mainland of the Kingdom of Naples was occupied by the French, who set up the short-lived Parthenopean Republic

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you Chris! Very good spot - we slightly lost track of the territorial changes in Italy, with our heads buried in the sands of Egypt. Unfortunately you're just too late to gt the typos prize, but much appreciated. We'll get these fixed.

EpicHistoryTV

Hi Gage, yes, we've made an error in calculating the days, it should be 11, not 10. We'll get this fixed, and congratulations - you win the Typos prize for this episode! We'll be in touch to organise..

EpicHistoryTV

Haha, glad to hear it! You've been one of our longest and most generous supporters here on Patreon, so only fitting you should get the first 'Heroes' shout out!

Brian Pavillar

Huh, that's crazy. It seems I couldn't find him when I searched him up since most of the biographies are in French. But wow dueling culture in Europe was something else back then.

Walter C

Great video as always EHTV team! Question: At the 15 minute mark, their is a battalion that looked like it was in the center of the city and did not make it out with the rest of the troops when they fell back. Where they captured and massacred? Unsuprisingly, I couldnt find anything from internet searches, so I assume this was in your books and research.

Thomas

Another great video. Thank you for explaining Napoleon’s voyage back to France. Most sources seem to gloss over that part but I was always curious how he managed to avoid the Royal Navy.

EpicHistoryTV

Hugging the North African coast, and a bit of luck!

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Walt! Glad you noticed that little detail - here's an account from Francois Bernoyer, who was with Napoleon's army: “Seeing they were not followed by their comrades, they lost hope of being rescued; these brave soldiers decided to stand their ground to the last man. They took possession of a mosque, where they barricaded themselves in and defended like lions against the efforts of the numerous opposing troops, who were enraged by the losses they had suffered in the course of the day’s fighting. Faced with such combat, which was to be a fight to the bitter end, the English Admiral Sidney Smith was moved by sentiments of humanity and generosity to intervene, and lost no time in coming to the rescue of our brave soldiers with a detachment of English soldiers. He called upon our grenadiers to surrender themselves and in return he promised them protection: they trusted him and this amiable officer saved the life of 200 men.”

Gage Hardesty

Hey Toby if you want to, you can add Casualty marks after decisive battles like Mount Tabor which didn't have a casualty figure, and although you did say that they lost around 300 and the Ottomans all 35,000 but it might be helpful that you add the casualty mark on screen so people can see it of how big and destructive the battle was rather than just saying it without proof of Casualty marks.

Gage Hardesty

And maybe when Napoleon mentions about his dreams of forming a new religion in the Middle East while in his second exile, you should include the date of when he said that because I believe it would be pretty cool if we got the ideal date of when he wrote that in his Memoirs.

Stuart Carver

Awesome stuff though I must admit I reckon his Egyptian campaign isn’t as interesting a topic generally compared to the Italian campaign. This makes no real sense in terms of strategy and there a lack of brilliance on Napoleons part I feel. I hope Cape St Vincent will also be out soon as I’m eager for it I’m assuming it will be a 3 part series? One query I know Ireland was under Britain’s thumb by this time but it wasn’t part of the Union till 1801 so shouldn’t the map reflect this by not showing them as one entity but two separate states; adding the name Ireland to show they aren’t the same country at this point?

Walter C

Wow this is so FREAKIN COOL! I imagaine there were a 1000 stories just like this where you guys have had to make the hard decision to include or not to include in the videos. I can see how the videos can quickly get bloated when adding too many stories, but man, this one is awesome. Admiral Sidney Smith: Smart, brave, creative, & Honorable. "That man made me miss my destiny" - Napoleon. Side note: Their are so many great & inspiring men that get lost in history. Thanks for all you guys do, it is awesome!

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Stuart. Egypt may not be as interesting tactically, but I think it's fascinating off the battlefield. Britain and Ireland were ruled by the same monarch, so I don't think it would add clarity to change the map in this case.

Stuart Carver

I think the birth of Egyptology is definitely the most interesting aspect for sure. I’d love you to do a video on that one day as it’s like a 19th century space race. Don’t know if you ever watched the BBC docudrama Egypt from 2005 but I still remember fondly its retelling of Young vs Champollion. As for Ireland I guess that’s fair enough l but I’m sure some patriotism Irishmen might disagree.

EpicHistoryTV

I think I did watch that documentary, and there was also a great exhibition about 'the race' at the British Museum last year, which I visited. Great stuff, though maybe tricky to turn into a dramatic video - very technical!

TankerBricks

Having watched this a few times, the subtitles made me chuckle a bit, especially during the Battle of Aboukir when Murat Captures Mustafa Pasha, it says he disappears. I'd argue he did disappear cos he went straight into the Camp and captured Pasha in his tent.

Gage Hardesty

I was just realizing by looking at the date for the siege of El-Arish, when he's been held up for 10-11 days I realized that by the time Napoleon got to El-Arish it was already the 15th of February, so maybe it's supposed to be the 25th of February that the siege had ended because by then Napoleon would've approximately been there for 10 days instead of 5. I know that I already won the typos thing but it's still noteworthy before it gets released that it's mentioned itself.

Gage Hardesty

Either that or the date for which Napoleon had for the siege had begun was that the date was Either too much ahead or as I said from the previous comment maybe the end date was off by a week

Stuart Carver

I assumed the number of days don’t correlate exactly because of all the things napoleon would have to do and organise after the siege before he could actually resume his advance so he couldn’t advance the second hostilities ended, such as prisoners and resupplying.

Gage Hardesty

Well true but when we look at the date from when Napoleon decided to head out to Acre it was already 15th of February that Napoleon arrived at El-Arish, and by what Toby had said about it was that Napoleon had held up in the siege for 10 days, now unless the date that Toby had set is wrong and that it should be on the 8th of February that it began, it doesn't make sense for when by the time he arrives at El-Arish on the 15th of February and waited for a total of 6 days to match, so unless you got any other ideas in your head nows the time to spill it out.

Torres

This is probably too far ahead, but, one day well might get back to Napoleon, after a hiatus, and see how he takes on the second coalition. With that being said, I would like to see next the American war for independence!

Petrescu Gabi

what an amazing episode. thanks again, Epic History TV :)

Uaid Ez Zahhar

Yeah, I also assumed that as my first typo. The logic is, they start counting not when Napoleone arrived with his main Armée, but from the day the siege began. So, it is 11 days instead of 10. Don't know if I exactly answered the question, but I think that is it.

Gage Hardesty

Yes Toby had made it clear in my previous comments that the siege for Napoleon having to wait was around 11 days, so in contrast he fixed that typo in YouTube for you to see

Uaid Ez Zahhar

Little typo, hope it is in time: in the 7.36 second caption, the name of the Quartermaster is Charles Francois (but in French, Francis is written FranÇois, rather than FranCois), and it ought to be Charles François. I may have lost the battle for the typo, but I hope I can help with small details like this! Salve, EHTV!

Uaid Ez Zahhar

I must also say: I love the visual effects!, like the heat effect around minute 17 to 18, or the little blood pools at Jaffa's walls thanks to Al-Djezzar's headchoppers, and at Aboukir! And as for the paintings... where do you get them from? Any web/app in particular? Or just google them and hope to come across a good one??

EpicHistoryTV

Good spot! But alas, the video has gone out now, and too late to change.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you! Check the video credits (although not this episode) for a list of major image sources. But they really do come from a wide range of sources. Museums, universities, galleries, and commercial libraries such as Alamy and Getty.

Resident Elect

Hi guys, absolutely fantastic work! Would it be possible to get the name of the track which starts at 24:05 during the retrospective/discovery of the Rosetta stone, please. Hoping you'll upload it to EHTV music in the near future 👍

Dane Dosson

Would love to see a series on the Latin American wars of independence and how they tied together with the Napoleon series.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you! That one's called Call of Kingship by Cody Martin, glad you liked it!

Stuart Carver

I imagine it would be tricky but very illuminating and unique if you could as I doubt it’s a topic many would attempt so might be worth it for that reason alone someday? Oh I missed that I remember seeing the Tutankhamen exhibition at the 02 about 16 years ago though which was great.

Dan.Gryn

Thank you so much! This brings back so many fond memories of my past life.

Connor

I am so exicited for the coup episode because I don't know much about it beside it happened :D