![]() ![]() The Red Man…appeared for the first time to General Buonaparte, then in Egypt, the evening before the battle of the Pyramids. The second myth has to do with a phantom called the Red Man. The story was repeated in several early biographies of Napoleon, including those by Willem Lodewyk Van-Ess (1809), Sir Walter Scott (1827) and William Henry Ireland (1828). A second passage, much injured, and leading towards the summit of the pyramid, carried him successively over two platforms and thence to a vaulted gallery, in one of the walls of which the place of a mummy was seen, which was believed to have been the spouse of one of the Pharaohs. He…penetrated into the interior, where he found a passage a hundred feet long and three feet broad, which conducted him by a rapid descent towards the apartments that served as a tomb for Pharaoh, who erected this monument. There it was embellished with a description of how Napoleon reached the room within the Great Pyramid where the meeting took place. This conversation was reprinted in a book called Life of Buonaparte, First Consul of France, from his birth to the Peace of Luneville, translated from the French in 1802. But my mission is first to exterminate the Mamelukes. I love the prophet and intend to visit and honour his tomb in the sacred city. Glory to Allah! There is no other God but God Mohammed is His prophet, and I am one of his friends. The order included the supposed transcript of a long “Conversation of Bonaparte in the Grand Pyramid with several imams and muftis,” including three named Soliman, Mohamed and Ibrahim. This rumour actually originated with Napoleon or his staff, since it first appeared in the army’s Order of the Day for August 26, 1798. The first myth is that Napoleon entered the Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops) and converted to Islam. ![]() They were probably obscured by smoke once the fighting got underway. In reality, the battle took place so far from the pyramids that the latter were barely visible on the horizon. The Battle of the Pyramids by François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, 1798-99. ![]()
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