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Excerpt from Napoleon From the Tuileries to St. Helena: Personal Recollections of the Emperor's Second Nameluke and Valet Louis Etienne St. Denis (Known as Ali)Saint-denis had married Mary Hall at St. Helena on October 18, 1819. She was a young Englishand the Star of the Legion of Honor, a cockade from a hat, a piece of the St. Helena cofi'in, and a bit of one of the willows which grew over the Emperor's tomb. My daughters should always rememb...

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Recollections of Napoleon's French Mameluke Napoleon Bonaparte's adventure in the Middle East brought him in close contact with the Mamelukes-the dominant military caste of Egypt at the close of the 18th century. As students of the period know, despite the fact that the French inflicted devastating defeats on the Mamelukes, their exotic 'oriental' appearance appealed to a European sense of romance to the degree that Mameluke cavalry took their...

Recollections of Napoleon's French Mameluke Napoleon Bonaparte's adventure in the Middle East brought him in close contact with the Mamelukes-the dominant military caste of Egypt at the close of the 18th century. As students of the period know, despite the fact that the French inflicted devastating defeats on the Mamelukes, their exotic 'oriental' appearance appealed to a European sense of romance to the degree that Mameluke cavalry took their...