Download or read book The Tricolor and the Scimitar written by Jean-Paul Sinclair Lewis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tricolor and the Scimitar is the first historical novel in a brilliant and compelling four-part series that recounts Napoleon Bonaparte and l’Armée d’Orient’s invasion and occupation of Egypt and the Holy Land between 1798-1801. The book opens with the conquest of Malta in June 1798 and then moves to Egypt and the death march to Cairo, the Battle of the Pyramids, and the annihilation by Admiral Nelson of the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile. In