2-750-845 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Battle of Aboukir, 25 July 1799, (1921). Depiction of a battle between the Turks under Mustafa and the French commanded by Napoleon, fought at Aboukir (Abu Qir, on the north coast of Egypt), during the Egyptian Campaign. French cavalry commander Murat has pushed the Turks to the sea, and Mustafa Pasha, taken prisoner, is led to General Napoleon Bonaparte. After a painting made c1801 by Louis-François Lejeune, in the collection of the Musée de l'Histoire de France, palace of Versailles, France. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot. [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]