Napoleon Bonaparte directing the burning of the Great Mosque and other mosques to quell the Cairo Uprising during the Egyptian Campaign, 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815.

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