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This week, I'm going to go back and recommend for a second time, the Black Count by Tim

Reese, a narrative history of the Haitian-born General Thomas Alexander Dumas. I really thought

I was going to have a chance to get into him, but he's been just off to the left of the

main narrative and I just don't have the time to spare. But just so you know, he was on

the Italian campaigns. He single-handedly fought off a company of Austrians trying to take

a bridge. He was the commander of cavalry during the Egyptian campaigns that I'm about

to tell you about. And then he winds up captured, thrown in prison. And when he finally gets

back to France, he's all shunned by his former comrades because he was not a fan of Napoleon

Bonaparte's endless self-aggrandizement. His is an amazing story. So when you're done

with this episode, go get it and get it at audiblepodcast.com for its last revolutions so that

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Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Episode 3.49, the Egyptian expedition. So as promised, this

week we are going to spend the entire episode covering Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition

to Egypt. We are going to stick with him for a whole year all the way through August

1799. When Bonaparte decides that for the good of France, he must abandon his army and

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