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256 NAPOLEON’S EGYPT19. Pelleport, pp. 120–121; Moiret, pp. 43 and 43n.20. Izzet Hasan Efendi Darendeli, al-Hamlah al-Firansiyyah ‘ala Misr fi Daw’ Makhtut ‘Uthmani,trans. Jamal Sa’id ‘Abd al-Ghani (Cairo: al-Hay’ah al-Misriyyah al-’Ammah li’l-Kitab,1999), p. 148.21. This and the subsequent quotations are from ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fial-tarajim wa al-akhbar, 4 vols. (Bulaq: al-Matba’ah al-Amiriya, 1322/1904, 2nd ed.), 3:7, astranslated by the team under Philipp and Perlmann.22. Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, Journal et souvenirs de l’expédition de l’Égypte (1798–1801)(Paris: Librairie Plon, 1799), p. 50; Kléber/Dumuy, 17 July 1798; Kléber/Bonaparte, 21 July1798; Kléber/Menou, 24 July 1798, in Henry Laurens, Kléber en Égypte, 1798–1800, 2 vols.(Cairo: Institut Français de l’Archéologie Orientale, 1988), 1:134–135, 1:145–152, 1:155;Henry Laurens et al., L’Expédition d’Égypte: 1798–1801 (Paris: A. Colin, 1989), p. 99.23. Bernoyer, p. 57.24. Charles François, Journal du capitaine François, dit le dromadaire d’ Egypte 1792–1830, ed.Charles Grolleau, 2 vols. (Paris: Carrington, 1903–1904), 1:202–203.25. Moiret, p. 34; for another mention of naked village youngsters, see Bernoyer, p. 84.26. Nada Tomiche, “The Situation of Egyptian Women in the First Half of the NineteenthCentury,” in P. M. Holt, ed., The Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1968), pp. 171–184, esp. p. 175.27. Kenneth M. Cuno, The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society and Economy in Lower Egypt,1780–1858 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), chapter 3.28. This and subsequent paragraph based on Moiret, pp. 45–46; for the burned village seeBernoyer, p. 5829. François, 1:203–204.CHAPTER 41. The following account of the Battle of the Pyramids is drawn from M. Vertray, Journal d’unofficier de l’armée d’Egypte, ed. H. Galli (Paris: Charpentier, 1883), pp. 56–59; Alfred de Besancenet,Le Général Dommartin en Italie, et en Égypte (Paris: Téqui, 1887), p. 410; Pierre dePelleport, Souvenirs militaires et intimes (Paris: Didier & Co., 1857), pp. 121–124; Nicolas-Philibert Desvernois, Mémoires du Général Baron Desvernois, ed. Albert Dufourcq (Paris:Plon, 1898), pp. 121–128; Joseph-Marie Moiret, Mémoires sur l’expédition d’Égypte, (Paris: P.Belfond, 1984), pp. 46–51; Louis Alexandre Berthier, Mémoires de Maréchal Berthier . . . 1 erPartie: Campagne D’Égypte (Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1827), pp. 17–22; David G. Chandler,The Campaigns of Napoleon (New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 219–227; John Dellinger,“Napoleonic Wars: Battle of the Pyramids,” HistoryNet.com at ; James W. Shosenberg,“The Battle of the Pyramids: Futile Victory,” in Aryeh Shmuelevitz, ed., Napoleon and theFrench in Egypt and the Holy Land, 1798–1801 (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2002), pp. 235–251; and‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Muzhir al-taqdis bi dhihab dawlat al-faransis (Cairo: Matba’at al-Risalah, 1969), pp. 39–43.2. Napoléon Bonaparte, Correspondence de Napoléon Ier, 34 vols. (Paris: H. Plon, J. Dumaine,1858–1870), 4:251, no. 2834. Subsequent quotations from Bonaparte on the Battle of thePyramids are from this source.3. For the French forces, see Pierre Dominique Martin, Histoire de l’expédition française enÉgypte, 2 vols. (Paris: J.-M. Eberhart, 1815), 1:203–204; some of these figures on the slavesoldierforces come from Besancenet, ibid.; others from Leila ‘Abd al-Latif Ahmad as citedin Daniel Crecelius, The Roots of Modern Egypt (Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1981), p.21.4. John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York: Viking Press, 1976); I am also grateful to mycolleague John Shy for his observations on eighteenth-century warfare, though I want to becareful to say any mistakes are my own.5. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Lettres d’Égypte, 1798–1801 (Paris: Paleo, 2000), p. 43.6. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fi al-tarajim wa al-akhbar, 4 vols. (Bulaq: al-Matba’ah al-Amiriya, 1322/ 1904, 2nd ed.), 3:10.