
3.49- The Egyptian Expedition
Revolutions
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Napoleon's Battle of Mount Tabor
Napoleon despatched two thousand men under general jean baptiste clabert, a guy i have been ignoring so far in the show. Clabert located the relief army camped at the base of mount tabor, and he scheduled a night raid for the wee hours of april sixteenth that would hopefully confuse and scatter the enemy. But unfortunately, it took claybert longer to get into position than he planned,. And so when dawn broke on the sixteenth, the little army was spotted. Claybert formed his army into two compact divisional squares, and for the next ten hours, fought off wave after wave of mameluke cavalry. The holding out was actually pretty easy
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