Chapter
Locating the Ottomans in Napoleon’s World
Abstract
Historians writing about the 1798 French invasion of Egypt style Napoleon Bonaparte as the grand sultan (Sultan Kebir) and conqueror of Egypt.1 By contrast, Ottoman Sultan Se lim III (1787–1807) has been viewed as weak, indecisive and incapable of implementing his visionary reform agenda, in a general condemnation of Ottoman feebleness that marks most of the well-known narratives. The Bonaparte invasion inaugurated an interventionist school of …
Authors
Aksan VH
Book title
Napoleon’s Empire
Pagination
pp. 277-290
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2016
DOI
10.1057/9781137455475_20