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Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville’s illustrations of the Egyptian Campaign, derailing Napoleon and Murat’s careers are just splendid. The picture of the battle of the Pyramids with the scholars and the Cantiniere is among my favourites.

Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar governor of Sidon and Damascus with his seat in Acre. He was the Ottoman official in charge when Bonaparte attacked the city. He was ably assisted by his powerful Vizier Haim Farhi (blue turban eyepatch) who was instrumental to the Ottoman defence.

‘In 1415 I was at the battle of Ruisseauville where I was wounded in the knee and the head, and I laid with the dead. But when the bodies were searched through, I was taken prisoner, being wounded and helpless (impotens), and kept under guard for while....

Joseph Fouché, managing to actually look as sinister as his rep.

Anniversary of our figurative trip to Hawaii @churchill_alex time travelling through some of the major figures of the Hawaiian monarchy. https://t.co/dW0pc41aVN

The fruits of the Grasse-Saavedra Convention! https://t.co/QoSG2bW9ew

One British private remembered not realising he had been hit. He ‘knew nothing of it until my piece fell out of my hand, and I saw the blood running down in a stream.’

Some 600 more men from both sides suffer in field hospitals enduring the probes and saws. Perhaps US Army Surgeon William Horner had time to cast his mind back to when in the early summer, he had told General Scott he’d nothing to do, & Scott had replied he’d be busy soon.

There was a power struggle in the 7th and 8th centuries over the control of the silk roads in western China. The Tang Dynasty had immense trouble with (amongst others) the emergence of a Tibetan Empire founded by Songtsen Gampo. In 763 the Tibetans even captured Chang’an.

Hagapells: Finnish light cavalry from the army of Gustavus Adolphus, so called from their battle cry
"Hakkaa päälle!", meaning "Cut them down!"