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...given almost no chance to help. Not until last year were a handful of Harvard student teachers even allowed to practice in Boston. "There is no place in the country where a graduate school of education has had less influence on a city school system," says Harvard Education Professor Herold Hunt...
Bonaparte in Egypt, by J. Christopher Herold. The vividly detailed saga of Napoleon's three years in Egypt and of the gradual erosion of both his army and his dream of Eastern empire...
Bonaparte in Egypt, by J. Christopher Herold. The vividly detailed saga of Napoleon's three years in Egypt and of the gradual erosion of both his army and his dream of Eastern empire...
...time, Author Christopher Herold notes in this witty and vividly detailed account of those three years, all the dreams seemed to come true. The French fleet of 400 sails that left Toulon on May 19, 1798, managed to evade a British squadron under Admiral Nelson in the fog and sailed on to Alexandria undisturbed. With an advance guard of only 5,000 men (out of a total force of 50,000, including sailors), Napoleon landed through the surf on a remote beach and advanced on Alexandria by night with neither cavalry nor artillery. Taking the garrison by surprise, he captured...
Studies in Slime. If anything justified the expedition, Author Herold believes, it was the ten volumes of text and 14 volumes of plates that comprise Description de I'Egypte. That monument of collective scholarship was assembled by the 167-man Commission on the Sciences and Arts that Napoleon brought with him to establish a cultural institute in Alexandria. The assembled scientists interspersed papers like "Observations on the Wing of the Ostrich'' and "Analysis of the Slime of the Nile" with studies on capillary attraction, the treatment of smallpox and bubonic plague, the formation of ammonia...