Dolan
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Just seeing the coronation of Pharaoh Napoleon XII from St Mark's Coptic Cathedral at Alexandria, after the death of his much-beloved father, Napoleon XI.
Well, nowadays we regard the Bonaparte Dynasty of Egypt as just another royalty if somewhat having a rather unusual origin story by descending from Republican French Expedition Force led by what would become the First Pharaoh of Egypt's Thirty-Sixth Dynasty, Napoleon Bonaparte.
It was said that Napoleon was originally sent to Egypt and Syria to defend the Revolutionary French trade interests and to weaken the British Empire by theoretically cutting off direct British access to India. The French Expedition there enjoyed an immense success in gaining control of Egypt, who at the time, is in Chaos due to Mamluk Elites and Ottoman forces fighting each other.
But just as the French Expedition finally able to set up a working administration, the French Revolutionary Government were overrun by The Second Coalition, restoring the Bourbon as the ruling Monarchs of France. Cut off from their homeland, Napoleon the first was supposedly spent several nights inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, and he emerges as a man with a new purpose, as he then declared to his soldiers his plan to invoke the Legacy of Alexander the Great, and crown himself as the Founder of Bonapartist Dynasty of Egypt, taking way too many cues from the Hellenistic-era Ptolemaic Dynasty, and the rest is history.
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Now, what if The Second Coalition never overrun the French Revolutionary government? With Republican government in Charge, Napoleon would not have any chance to actually crown himself, let alone invoking the title of Pharaoh, and might even end up recalled back to France first to lead the defense against the Second Coalition.
Or maybe Napoleon, instead of staying in Egypt and building his dynasty there, actually rush back to France to save whatever remnants of the Revolutionary Government there? Maybe he would end up crowning himself as Emperor of France instead?
Well, nowadays we regard the Bonaparte Dynasty of Egypt as just another royalty if somewhat having a rather unusual origin story by descending from Republican French Expedition Force led by what would become the First Pharaoh of Egypt's Thirty-Sixth Dynasty, Napoleon Bonaparte.
It was said that Napoleon was originally sent to Egypt and Syria to defend the Revolutionary French trade interests and to weaken the British Empire by theoretically cutting off direct British access to India. The French Expedition there enjoyed an immense success in gaining control of Egypt, who at the time, is in Chaos due to Mamluk Elites and Ottoman forces fighting each other.
But just as the French Expedition finally able to set up a working administration, the French Revolutionary Government were overrun by The Second Coalition, restoring the Bourbon as the ruling Monarchs of France. Cut off from their homeland, Napoleon the first was supposedly spent several nights inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, and he emerges as a man with a new purpose, as he then declared to his soldiers his plan to invoke the Legacy of Alexander the Great, and crown himself as the Founder of Bonapartist Dynasty of Egypt, taking way too many cues from the Hellenistic-era Ptolemaic Dynasty, and the rest is history.
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Now, what if The Second Coalition never overrun the French Revolutionary government? With Republican government in Charge, Napoleon would not have any chance to actually crown himself, let alone invoking the title of Pharaoh, and might even end up recalled back to France first to lead the defense against the Second Coalition.
Or maybe Napoleon, instead of staying in Egypt and building his dynasty there, actually rush back to France to save whatever remnants of the Revolutionary Government there? Maybe he would end up crowning himself as Emperor of France instead?
This is obviously inspired by my earlier thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...yle-themselves-as-pharaoh-after-700ad.470197/