Today marks the 224th anniversary of the beginning of the first Cairo uprising against the French campaign, which broke out on October 20, 1798. This uprising was led by Al-Azhar and its elders and was sparked by the French government’s deliberate imposition of excessive taxes on merchants, which went against what Napoleon had promised when he first arrived in Egypt.
General Deboy, the ruler of Cairo, did not enjoy the tightening of control when the revolution flared up. As a result, the revolutionaries were able to assassinate Debawi and grow in number.
With the confrontations between the two sides, and the motivation of the imams of Al -Azhar and its scholars to the Egyptian resistance, the number of Egyptian revolutionaries increased, and more than 50 thousand Egyptian protesters gathered in the roads leading to Al -Azhar, so the position of the French army became more and embarrassed, and Bonaparte was unable to enter the city, and killed many soldiers French leaders Dominic Duboy, Joseph Solkovsky, and Bonaparte’s assistant made up the French and the generals.
The French installed the defender in the castle and fired heavily on the homes, shops, and locations where the protesters and fighters were stationed, with the majority of the artillery strikes falling on the Al-Azhar neighbourhood and the neighbourhoods around it. The French forces then advanced quickly to the neighbourhoods of Cairo and the fighters Bonaparte was pursuing, forcing them to retreat to the Al-Azhar Moat.
The occupation defender struck the houses, lanes, and the Al-Azhar mosque, which nearly collapsed from the number of the defender; this incited the soldiers’ wrath, and the revolutionaries’ bravery reached the point where they killed numerous soldiers; the defender then poured on the Al-Azhar neighbourhood and the neighbouring neighbourhoods such as Al-Sanadqiriya, Al-Jouria, and Al-Nahhasin; the French stormed Al-
There, in the rehab of Al -Azhar, the horses of the French were stormed, and a barrage of bullets were opened to those who were in it, and the Al -Azhar Mosque drowned with the blood of more than 2,500 Egyptians and thousands of other wounded.
Following that, Bonaparte gave the order to seize everybody involved in the instigation of the Cairo Revolution, including six of Al-elders. Azhar’s They were then taken to the castle, where they were killed, and their remains were dumped in random locations.
The French campaign’s opposite side in Egypt. What did you do in the first Cairo revolution?
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