Kamis, 07 September 2017

Napoleon’s Desert Storm

Why Western armies win battles— but not wars—in the Muslim world. Crimson and azure robes embroidered with silver and gold flashed in the hot Egyptian sun as 7,000 Mamluk cavalry trotted toward the invaders, Napoleon Bonaparte’s Army of the Orient. Suddenly, the Mamluks uttered blood-curdling war cries and spurred their horses to a gallop, scimitars …

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