The Sick Man of Europe: The History of the Ottoman Empire’s Decline in the 19th Century by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

After Napoleon had crowned himself emperor, he reunited a shattered France with the help of a classic strategy: finding a foreign foe. The people of France would unite under Napoleon's strong leadership, and his military genius would take everyone by surprise.

Napoleon

Napoleon chose to land his naval forces in Egypt 1799, more or less forcing Selim to declare war against the French. With that, Selim's longstanding agreement with the French was unavoidably switched to allying with the British and the Russians, both the natural enemies of Napoleon. In the Russian Empire, Catherine had died three years earlier, leaving the throne to her son Paul, and due to the changing dynamics in Europe, Paul chose another approach to the Turks by advocating an alliance. Thus, he secured pathways across the Black Sea, through the Dardanelles all the way to the Mediterranean, letting Russian warships pass unmolested.

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