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Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1804.Image: Antoine-Jean Gros · Public domainworld · Asia
Napoleon’s army storms Jaffa
During his campaign from Egypt into Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte’s army took the Ottoman port of Jaffa after a short siege, and the town was sacked. In the days that followed several thousand Ottoman prisoners were executed on his orders, and plague broke out among the French troops.
Source: Fondation Napoléon: Bonaparte’s despatches from Egypt, part IV ↗
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