Happy Cinco De Mayo to all Mexicans
For those who do not know , we the Egyptians fought in the battles between the French and the Mexicans , unfortunately we were on the French side , still we achieved some few military victories for French in what was known in the Egyptian Battalion in Mexico.
May be next Cinco De Mayo inshallah I will share with you the Chronicles of the Egyptian Battalion
I have a confession only today I found a relation between the Cinco De May and the famous Forgotten Egyptian Battalion
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I don't know how, and why, the Egyptians fought in Mexico alongside the French. Napoleon took over Egypt in 1798 and left in 1801 . After that, Egypt was nominally under the Ottoman Empire but was ruled by an Albanian (and not by a Turkish as many people think). His children made a mess out of Egypt and the British came and occupied the country in 1882 . Egypt had no military involvement with the French when they (under Napoleon III) fought the Mexican army in May of 1862. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexicans victory on May 5.
ReplyDeleteamr , you are very ignorant. Egypt actually slipped off the Ottomania n rule under Mohamed Ali who gor Egyptianised. Under the command of Ibrahim Pasha Egyptian army hu,milated Turkey and wiped the ground with the Turks. we invaded Anatolia and the road was open to Islampole . The Turkish elite back then were ready to welcome the Egyptians because they were Muslimas like them, unlike the Russians who scored several victories over the sick ottoman empire.
ReplyDeleteIbrahim is considered by many the one who laid down the first foundation of Aram nationalism in its modern sense. As he unified the Arab world and when he was asked by some some of his commander about their final stop, he replied by saying at the klast Arabic speaking village.
Egyptian had strong military tradition after the Egyptian army showed that it is among the best fighting forces in the world- only matched by the Japanese, Germans and Iraqis.
Napoleon the third asked the help of the Egyptians because the Mexican revbels were giving the French a hard time, so the French thought of getting help from Egyptians who were used to fighting in a hot climate.
@amr , read anonymous' comment , it is my mistake that I did not give more information , I do not know about historical information but Egypt since 1804 became Semi indpenendent from the Ottoman empire ,Mohamed Ali wanted to have an empire and he was so near to Conquer the Ottoman Empire if it were not for the west
ReplyDeleteI am not a liar wait insh Allah next year because I will share more information about unknown military history
@anonymous ,thank you much for giving Amr a hint aout modern history