Those who carefully
watch US and Great Britain Neo-Colonial statements about
their designs on Iraq, can easily detected cynical aims. In
an eerie way, these convoluted statements are not a novelty. Two centuries
ago Napoléon spelled out, at the eve of the French invasion
of Egypt in 1798, similar designs on the Orient.
| "..To restore the region
from its present barbarism to its former classical greatness; to instruct
the Orient in the ways of the modern West; to subordinate or underplay
military power in order to aggrandize the project of glorious knowledge
acquired in the process of political domination of the Orient; to formulate
the Orient, to give it shape, identity, definition with full recognition
of its place in memory, its importance to imperial strategy, and its natural
role as an appendage to Europe ..." Napoleon Bonaparte.
"à
travers moult batailles – comme Jules César – à un pouvoir
presque absolu (...). Il avait des motifs louables, ou du moins ses conseillers
médiatiques le disaient ; il voulait la paix, la justice et l'unité
de l'Europe. Mais il pensait qu'il libérerait d'autres pays en les
débarrassant de pratiques religieuses étouffantes et en remplaçant
leurs systèmes politiques par un autre copié sur le sien.
A cette fin, il renversa les rois des autres pays et en créa de
nouveaux qui faisaient partie de sa propre famille". Et de citer les "deux
plus grandes erreurs" |
In 1798, Bonaparte's
expedition into Egypt unleashed a chain reaction which set about
events that would required two centuries of complicated maneuvering before
they were brought back into a semblance of order (if any). Since
then, and for the past two hundred years, Egypt has become a testing
ground for Great power rivalries. First, the French in 1798, then
the British in 1807 (failed Expedition in Rashiyd),
and again in 1882 . At the dawn of the 21st Century, Egypt
remains a tempting target for the remaining superpower.
Historians have labeled
this period of Egyptian History by the misnomer of "The Modern Egypt"
and /or "Le Réveil de l'Egypte". However, her native
people know it by the title of: "FALSE DAWN" and these are the serialized
Chronicles of the French Expedition into Egypt that relate the whole story.
The series entitled
"FALSE
DAWN" produced by "The Egyptian Chronicles" will be posted on
a monthly basis to acquaint its Egyptian readers with this important period
of their history, which covers the duration of the French Expedition in
Egypt
between
1798-1801.
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