Mamluk: A Song of Fire and Sword

In 1798, the French Republic sent the famous general Napoleon to Africa, the French army tried to control the Suez Canal and the main sea route to the Asian continent, the Mamluk cavalry faced an unprecedented strong enemy, ready for heroic resistance, and the great war between France and Egypt was about to break out!

Dawn breaks

On the night of 13 July, after a month's long journey, the French finally reached the Chaubrakshi region and marched southward along the left bank of the Nile, with a French fleet closely following the army to cover the French flank, and Napoleon commanded the soldiers to advance in an orderly manner towards the hinterland of the Egyptian Dynasty. At dawn, thousands of Mamluk cavalry suddenly appeared in the middle of the desert, lined up in a six-kilometer-long line, pulling out their shiny Damascus machetes, ready to stop the French here.

Seeing Napoleon's order, the French army immediately stopped advancing, each division formed an infantry phalanx, bayonets were lined with cold lights, and at the same time, the four corners of the infantry phalanx were equipped with small field artillery, and the french regimental bands played the battle song "Marseillaise" in the center of the phalanx, which made the morale of the French army instantly rise and boil, and Napoleon used the musket bayonet phalanx to meet the upcoming big war!

The Mamluk cavalry had no fear, issued a wild roar of battle, and killed the French army with a overwhelming force, and was immediately bombarded by artillery, the grenades exploded in all directions, and the guns suddenly fired in unison on the battlefield, and the Mamluk cavalry was swept down and killed in pieces before they rushed to the French, and the war horses were shot down and bleeding, and the Mamluk cavalry rushing to the front rushed into the infantry positions and slashed and killed, but the French phalanx was as strong as a copper wall, and the neatly arranged soldiers stood still and constantly killed the enemy.

At this time, the first row of Soldiers of the French Army fell to the ground, the second row of soldiers crouched, the third row of soldiers stood upright, forming a dense firepower precision shooting, melee combat with bayonets, bloody slaughter of the charging Mamluk cavalry, the Egyptian casualties became more and more serious, the corpses in the desert piled up, and the blood flowed on the battlefield in an instant. The defeated Mamluk cavalry soon launched a second charge, but was quickly repelled by the strong fire of the French army, and the Mamluk cavalry, knowing that they were invincible to Napoleon, had to abandon the corpses of their companions and flee in a hurry.

Battle of the Pyramids

Napoleon believed that the Mamluk cavalry was brave and good at war, but lacked strict organization and discipline, so it was inferior to the strong French expeditionary force. After the victory, Napoleon proudly said: "2 Mamluk cavalry can definitely win 3 French soldiers, 100 French soldiers and 100 Mamluk cavalry are evenly matched; 300 French soldiers can mostly defeat 300 Mamluk cavalry, and 1000 French soldiers can always defeat 1500 Mamluk cavalry."

At dusk on July 1, the advancing French army reached the outskirts of Cairo, just 15 kilometers away, and the majestic Egyptian pyramids stood in front of them, which amazed the French soldiers, napoleon took the lead in climbing a hillside, saying: "Soldiers! Forty centuries on the pyramids watching you"!

At this time, in the open area near the pyramid complex, 12,000 Mamluk cavalry and 20,000 Ottoman troops were ready to fight here, planning to fight to the death here, with flags in their positions and earthen fortifications in the desert, and 40 old cannons behind the earthen walls. Napoleon and the French generals came to the forward positions to observe the enemy situation and found the weakness of the Mamluk camp, the cavalry was very loose, the infantry corps was even more chaotic, and the defensive earthen fortifications were very simple and inadequate, not enough to stop the Advance of the French infantry.

So Napoleon ordered 5 infantry divisions to line up to meet the battle, and seeing the strong French army gradually approaching the earthen fortress, the Egyptian leader Muradbey shouted: "Rush, warriors, God will bless us to destroy these hateful enemies"! In an instant, the sand flew, and the Mamluk cavalry rushed to the front to take the lead, leading the entire war counterattack. At this time, the French army stopped advancing, using field artillery to cross fire, taking turns to bombard the dense charging cavalry units, the grenades killed the Egyptians in pieces, and when the Mamluk cavalry was only a hundred meters away from the French army, thousands of smoothbore guns in the French positions fired in a neat and orderly manner, causing the Egyptian soldiers to shout horses, and the wounded soldiers to lie in a pool of blood and cry out in pain, while the French phalanx stood still, easily repelling round after round of enemies, merciless bayonets and roaring artillery fire slaughtered tens of thousands of Egyptian soldiers.

After the Mamluk cavalry suffered heavy artillery damage, began to retreat to the rear, Napoleon calmly commanded the soldiers to continue fighting, found that there was a gap in the Egyptian camp, Napoleon immediately ordered the French army to take advantage of the situation, without difficulty to occupy the earthen fortifications, seeing that the base camp had been lost, the desperate Mamluk cavalry had to jump into the Nile in groups, drowning countless people, suddenly the Nile water was stained red with blood, the battle ended in just 2 hours, ending with a french victory.

Soon after, Napoleon led the French expedition to occupy the port of Alexandria, the Egyptian defenders were frightened and scattered, they abandoned the city and fled, the defeated Mamluk cavalry called Napoleon "the king of artillery", the prestige spread to the eastern continent, after this war, the Egyptian dynasty once again existed in name only, becoming a colony of the French Republic...