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How Did French Infantry Squares Defeat the Mamluk Cavalry? - Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition and the Failure of Occupation | Sleepy Facts About History
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In July 1798, a French army landed in Egypt, defeated a Mamluk-led force near Cairo, and discovered that winning a battle is not the same as governing a society. The clash often remembered as the Battle of the Pyramids actually took place on the irrigated floodplain of the Nile near the village of Embabeh. There, French infantry squares and methodical artillery fire repelled repeated charges by skilled Mamluk horsemen, breaking the Egyptian-Ottoman field army. Yet this tactical triumph…
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