#egypt campaign

[empirearchives]

Roustam’s first impression and description of Napoleon:

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[illustratus]

Bonaparte in Egypt, 1798 by Édouard Detaille

[colinbrooklyn]

Help Palestinian families evacuate by sharing Operation Olive Branch’s google doc which lists their GoFundMe fundraisers 🇵🇸

[odinsblog]

Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.

Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.

Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump, potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Those questions, at least in the view of several investigators on the case, would never be answered, The Post found.

Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.

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[divorcedwife]

hmmmm starting to think this napoleon guy sucks, let’s kill him

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[sapphhyra]

The canals of the lost city of Anekhis are dark and overgrown by vegetation, but nobody can hide from the biomagic constructs wandering the ruins.

#dnd5e

[josefavomjaaga]

Eugène about Sidney Smith

This is another snippet taken from Eugène de Beauharnais’s fragmented memoirs (Memoires et correspondance politique et militaire du Prince Eugène, Tome 1). In it, he mentions that while in Egypt, he crossed paths with Sidney Smith twice, both times missing him by an inch, the first time happening in Suez and the second time, related here, during the Battle of Aboukir. According to Eugène, during this battle [...]

[… t]he enemy was quickly dislodged from the advanced positions they occupied. Although I was not an artillery officer, I was nevertheless instructed by the general-in-chief to direct the first two guns we had taken from the Turks against the English boats on our left, already moving away.

[Insert sequence of a dozen clueless cavalrymen surrounding a Turkish canon.]

So, that’s where the canon ball goes in, right? And, I believe we have to light a fuse or something… Isn’t there also some kind of powder involved? Oh, Claude, maybe don’t stand directly in front of the barrel, we don’t really know what … [canon goes off] Woah! Hey, I think we almost hit something!

I noticed that one of our cannonballs fell close enough to a longboat to cover the men in it with water; and, by a singular coincidence, Commodore Sidney Smith was also among them, as he himself assured me, fifteen years later.

Which I assume to have happened during the Congress of Vienna that I understand both men attended. I can just imagine, during a nice evening dinner at the Hofburg, Eugène telling the people sitting next to him about the battle of Aboukir:

"And then Napoleon said we should fire a canon at the British boats, and we had no clue what we were doing but guess what, we still almost hit one. Don’t know who was in it but one thing I know for sure, they must have been soaking wet…"

Sidney Smith from across the table, jumping up: "Hold a second! That was you?"

[empirearchives]

This Napoleon was pretty cute

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

$20 million from Egypt diverted into the Trump campaign. How is this traitorous criminal still not in jail.

[illustratus]

Bonaparte and the Sphinx by Amédée Vignola

[merrigold]

fatima ⚔️ fighter and fugitive

[carbone14]

Chars M3 Grant, M3 Lee et M3 Stuart – 1ère bataille d'El Alamein – El Alamein – Egypte – 9 juillet 1942

Photographe : Sergent Windows - No. 1 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

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