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I'm just glad throughout the ages people became more and more literate. It sucks we can't get first hand accounts from regular people in say the Roman republic or or ancient Persia, etc. I never thought I'd be interested in people's journals and diaries, letters etc. Recording anything and everything back then would seem magical due to how big the world was.

This is hardly a mundane story

Being invaded by Napoleon is not quite mundane 😂

Most people write their day to day lives down now. Future generations with excavate the ruins of Twitter & Facebook. They’ll hate us

@@Jess-737 let us pray that the future lacks the technology to read anything in our time that’s not written in actual ink. Your post pleases me

@Slyphie The Forest Elf an African perhaps?

@Slyphie The Forest Elf not black Somali

I was wondering why he had a somali name. Makes sense now. Its actually even a common name amongst one particular somali tribe.

@@comradekenobi6908 Egyptian and Somalis and everyone in Africa is African so your question is confusing

@@fieldmarshal7081 nah im joking

they really are fascinating, terrifying, brutal, disgusting, almost unbelievable and so insightful. i love when one writer talks about how much the other group smelt, or how gross they were or how strangely they ate. then you hear the opposing side describe them in the same way, smelling, dirty, bad hygiene and sexual promiscuity. they should have high school students learn about these kinds of works. it opens your mind to so many new ideas.

He dead?

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I find it frightening because the words we type now are also words of the dead.

@@jacobstein9549 no he is 247 years old now but still has good health

I don't think enough people talk about France's actions outside of Europe tbh.

Yes that is ironic. Especially how it ended, with Napoleon fleeing, and abandoning all of his men there. Going back to France and proclaiming a victory. The second time he abandoned a whole army to destruction, as he did when he fled Russia. Why he is regarded as heroic is beyond me...

@@hyperion3145I don't think enough people talk about the middle easts and asia's barbaric treatment of europe for 1000's of years before these evil colonies finally expanded with exotic tech.

​@@hyperion3145It's easier to blame it on British or American imperialism

​@@RatmanSayswhat are you talking about , what you are saying is nonsense

"KZfaq keeps passing on promoting historical content"...what exactly are saying here?

Hmmm, KZfaq is a mini democracy. Videos and channels that get traffic are the dumb, and funny stuff which a general population likes. Only a handful of people are actually interested in beautiful stuff like history, mathematics and engineering. It's sad really how analytics can tell us what most of us are interested in.

We learn from history and so the answer

I would have permitted 2 ships. And maybe after some time 1 more

@@mariocisneros911 Stalin felt the same way too when the English warned him of the impending attack on stalingrad.

What's shady about asking someone to prepare for war. No enemy asks you for this

Sounds like NATO

Six years after the French left, the British invaded Egypt and tried to take it over. Its not mentioned much in the history books because it ended in a humiliating defeat.

British propaganda on Napoleon continues to dog the great mans legacy to this day.

I'm listening to this like "pwah! You know the French 😤." Actually I do not know the French. I'm just easily influenced 😖

Nothing of this should make you blush considering your own history

Fighting invaders of your land tends to do that

@@comradekenobi6908 I don't think you understood any of the comments above

It’s the British not just the English.

**they're (they are) there***

@@davidfoy6419 Pedantic - adjective - excessively concerned with minor details of rules; overscrupulous

I hadn't thought of the comparison before but after hearing it, it's quite apt.

I loved how honest he was in describing both armies even tho the french were his enemies! Very objective

The difference is great between the two,,, The first is called conquests, and it was armies against armies fighting for a good cause with honor , and there is no r*pe, burning, or r*pe of women in churches. The second is called barbaric colonialism, in which all kinds of evil were perpetrated by Napoleon and the french.

It just shows you how affective napoleons war machine was. He had the same effect on European and Arab army’s alike.

nothing good has ever come from France

Oh I'm sorry, so the brutality of their own leaders is okay but when the French do it...

@@mcapps1 two things can be bad :)

Very True but very partial

The aesthetics of it are amazing along with the whole context of Egyptology and hieroglyphic scholarship.

@@mcapps1 Nice whataboutism

French being French

"Liberté... egalité... Tu arrubbe a me I'arrobbo a ttè..."

thanks bro never heard of the italian captivity.

Wow! A great performing black general that Napoleon refused to ransom for because of ego. So he screwed over his own men just as much as the polish and africans! Fuck this guy Napoleon. Im glad he got his ass kicked.

Napoleon fucked him over

I mean, if you think about it, isn't most neoclassical aesthetic, art and architecture just a roman cargo cult?

@@thenutella8846 LOL!! Fair point.

It's a European cargo cult more broadly. Europeans love Rome for obvious reasons

I know! The selections, reading, visuals and sound effects are all excellent. One of the best history channels on KZfaq, easily

Muslims still dont get it. They translate 'nation' with 'ummah', which is the word for the Islam community. A state based on language snd ethnicity is blasphemy for them.

@Hercule Poirot The French campaign in egypt was in 1798-1801 the idea of a nation was still an experimental concept and just a generation behind the USA independance was declared on July 4, 1776. Europe was still splitted by different monarchies and their borders (That were not drawn by the people culture or identity but by the nobility), the Holy Roman Empire still existed (Meaning no Prussia, no Austria or united German identity), all latin america was under the control of the Spanish crown (meaning no latin american nations and republics) not even in Asia you would find Nationalism since Japan started building their national sentiment during the Meiji period (1850 - 1889) and China was under their Emperors authority with the mandate of heaven (Not Han chinese people united under Chinese nationalism). Napoleon changed all of this tho, he destroyed the HRE, he destroyed the Spanish crown which in turn made their colonies rebel and declared their independance while starting to build their national identity, nationalism was still in its infancy, spearheaded by France and the USA. But all of this happened after the French invasion of Egypt and Syria, not before.

@Hercule Poirot No it wasn't

You have no idea bro about Egypt at this era, Egypt was ruled by a system like the french republic except there's a sultan in Istanbul, the rules divided between three group -the pasha represent the sultan -sheikh albald (the governor) Mamluk represent by two people the army and the top merchant. -The scholars represent the people by sheikh alazhar and other judges. If two of this groups elect against the other, they have the right to discuss laws, taxes, and so on. When napleon wants to enter Cairo he asks and discusses it with the group of scholars, when they disagree with him after a while, this led to the Cairo revolutions against the french in Cairo and in upper Egypt and raised a new mujahideen who kills french governor of Cairo, defeated and annihilated french army in upper Egypt burn the Rome ship of napleon, calls to jihad against the french in levant and call sultan to send troops, caused french to lose any control.

@Hercule Poirot That is incorrect. The idea of nation and "citizens" was still new at this point.

They regard non-muslims as unclean and sub human

Duh the French are invading them lmao what do you expect them to do🙄

He lives in a country of moderate climate, with Nile and fancy public baths in the streets, washing everyday, the Mamluk were too hygiene he described them they put perfumes, diamond, gold and fancy clothes before the battle of imbaba(pyramids), they think they are undefeatable.

Yeah, i mean they don’t wash their asses after pooping so….

@Garrus Vakarian I am Egyptian and and I dislike the French and the English, (you Brits also invaded us but later, one invasion in 1807, and another in 1882)

😂😂😂 Very good Sir.

Keep in mind your not seeing exactly what he said. You are seeing how someone translated 200 year old arabic into English.

Sultan Napoleon

Im not sure why voices of the past didn't translate that to 'King' since thats exactly what the guy saying it meant.

@@lastword8783 the word for king in Arabic is Malik it's different from the word for Sultan, guess that's why

Well, they probably have full-time jobs, families, and relationships to maintain, leaving little time for the exhaustive task of creating a high-quality content

Read Napoleons letters to Josephine upon his return to France. "My dearest Josephine, I will be there in two weeks. Do not bathe."

@@BrettonFerguson He never wrote that

@@BrettonFerguson hahahahahahahahahaha

​@@BrettonFergusonit is the first time i heard this

​@@BrettonFergusond😂

I'd suspect he was a little biased about invaders coming to his country.

I could definitely hear his bias in a few sentences, but honestly, to me, he sounded pretty grounded with his description of the French military's treatment of the locals and the behavior of their common soldiers. If anything, apart from his disparaging of their hygiene, brutality, and the local camp whores (I'm assuming he didn't have everyday French women in France to go off of, but to be fair, the attitudes toward sex were pretty lax in France at the time so he wouldn't be too far off), he sounded impressed at how they conducted themselves in battle and how they had decent conviction to fight for their beliefs (with a few exceptions), something he criticized his own people for not doing, like when he mentioned merchants and Bedouin raiders taking advantage of the chaos to make an easy buck, or how the ruling elite who were in charge of the military were a bunch of spineless fools who were more interested in staying alive and wealthy instead of the wellbeing of the people under occupation or the honor of their country. Or even implying that the French were closer in their conviction to the armies of early Islam than the Egyptians could ever be. He sounded like he was complaining about his own country almost as much as he was about the invaders.

I think He is more of sarcastic / angry of every thing around him friend and foe alike 😄 he is baised / inaccurate in some things as far as i read

@@strictlyyoutube6881 well he wasnt egyptian

It is the translation. He had some legit criticism of French culture and military, but some of them are utter bullsht. Clean your buttocks and shave your pubic hair you [insert insult here]

He is a Somali but from eygpt, so it’s the same clan, my clan which is pretty cool to think he was out there in this time and we get a sneak peek into his thoughts

That will teach them to dishonor a flag of truce. Messengers' lives are sacrosanct.

@@aquariumdude7829 Napoleon's ultimatum seems to have been worded to insult the governor. It's worth pointing out that the French Army regressed in discipline under Bonaparte. War crimes were a feature of several French campaigns.

@@petergray7576 The fact is they still disrespected a flag of truce against innocent messengers. Also, after the barbaric and inhuman way they tortured and killed them, the governor and his people deserved everything they got for their own war crimes.

@@aquariumdude7829 Actually Napoleon killed the garrison because he didn't have the supplies to feed them, and he didn't want to free them to fight again. And killing four thousand men for a junior officer and a trumpeter is very disproportionate.

@@petergray7576 Nope. Not after disrespecting the flag of truce. Once you do that, all bets are off.

Idols are never good, but he did accomplish many great feats and is one of the most important figures throughout French history. French people will continue liking Napoleon, you egyptians can keep disliking him Kalid, thats fine, everyone would understand. I'm American and like him and learning about him, you're living in his homeland and here learning also, so France and Napoleon must be pretty interesting/cool!

@N alright?

Well, he gives it to you straight from the source. If the source ends for whatever reason, whether damage, or theft, or perhaps the source didn't have the chance to finish it, I don't know, Voices of the Past wont become Mostly Voices of the Past just to satisfy people who cannot stand an abrupt ending lol.. Not bad? Your one of those people just cant be pleased... Youd land after a skydive and go, "It was alright."

@@ljredddd4392 eh, ur comment could've been better too

@@pixulita Cheers cupcake

@@ljredddd4392 sorry, as interesting as this was it was not as exhilarating as skydiving. Ending abruptly has nothing to do with how I feel about it overall. perhaps I should have put a period between my two thoughts instead of a comma so people don't interpret it as "oh no it's too short I hate it!"

No it wouldn't, someone who read directly from actual primary non English Sources with someone who read Wikipedia articles with TW graphics

@@miracleyang3048 lmfao one, you didn't finish your thought. Which is basically what I expect from someone who's upset at a youtube video. Lmfao pleb

Not really the Jacobins were viciously anti-Christian. The revolutionary regime was predicated on precisely the rejection of that 1000 years of history.

Aye, it's likely Bonaparte will be mentioned in it at some point.

Not another one !, The British ! Not the English ! We let the Scots, Welsh and Irish off when we discuss The British Empire and all the naughty things they did.

No..Only Napolean..

@@alangervasis Napoléon is France.

We, the French, are arrogant and proud, because our History allows us to be so. Now cry me a river, "Arbli".

@@TheFrenchscot lol ok froggy, I've never met ruder or more arrogant people. But I still kind of like you. Viva the France.

@@curiositycloset2359 thanks. Live with panache

I think its because they didn't have surnames back then in egypt. His actual name is napoleon

such a great lindybeige video that

Why would he want to mention the incompetence of the Egyptians? I'm so glad you did though. That just goes to show you can't expect any type of competence from you people.

@@mcapps1 Mamluks were far better than any European army in history, In damanhour clash Morad bey and his vanguard they were 1 to 10 of the french army and they decided to attack and break through the army and nearly capture or kill napleon, the luck and his speed to reach Cairo before the Mamluk gathering and get ready secure him a temporary victory, Napleon imperial guard were Egyptian Mamluks because he knew no other cavalry in Europe can competite with them, and he run to Paris from the Mamluk before he gets the fate of louis ix and get capture by the Mamluk After they annihilated his army in upper Egypt.

@@mcapps1 I think the fact that 30% of France is Muslim shows the competence at playing the long game my friend :)

@@strictlyyoutube6881 1 : 30% is out of your bottom. 2 : *competence at playing the dirty game of who has less honour and is a cockroach.

@@TheFrenchscot What honour do the French have exactly? They were going to cuck themselves to Hitler, do you not remember?

It will come, soon enough.

Umm rather than the victims? 😂😂😂

@@maipenraionyourthai1943 The Ottomans were the victims? Good joke. Tell that to the Greeks.

​@@maipenraionyourthai1943all sides of history have to be heard.

This guys has narrations from both sides of same wars … .. maybe you haven’t seen enough of his content

Not for one second of the Napoleonic Wars, or the era around it, were the Brits the good guys.

@@ddc2957 neither were the French

@@ddc2957 the British are still a lot more tolerable than any other European power back then.

Neither the English or french were the good people, they never were, not because you kicked someone out of a country to take it for yourself it means you are a good guy

They regard all Europeans and Christians the same

@@karlscher5170 Europeans also regarded all Mohamdeans as the same

@@firstnamelastname4249 You sound like a hooligan.

@@firstnamelastname4249 Muslims regard muslims as the same. They call each other 'brother' and feel as a unified nation, the 'ummah'

No need for an execution. Just build a cage around him and throw a black cloth over it so he won't get sunburn.

True. One of the only Egyptian governors to not fear the Egyptian war machine. He was a wise and pious man