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Description: Charge of the Mamluks during the Battle of the Pyramids. An elite body of cavalry whom the French encountered during their campaign in Egypt in 1798, the Mamluks could trace their lineage of service to the Ottomans back to the mid-thirteenth century.
Title: Myrbach-Charge of the Mamluks
Credit: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William M. Sloane, New York: Century, vol. 2
Author: Felicien de Myrbach-Rheinfeld
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License: Public domain
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