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Napoleon

Napoleon moved an army into the Ottoman province of Damascus

1799
Syria and Galilee

In early 1799, Napoleon moved an army into the Ottoman province of Damascus (Syria and Galilee). Bonaparte led these 13,000 French soldiers in the conquest of the coastal towns of Arish, Gaza, Jaffa, and Haifa.


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