TY  - JOUR
T1  - NApoleon bonaparte visiting the plague-stricken at jaffa
AU  - Harris JC
Y1  - 2006/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.63.5.482
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 482
EP  - 483
VL  - 63
IS  - 5
N2  - 
Other members of his staff also document the visit. One wrote, “This action, which shows a deep political instinct, has produced an excellent effect. Already there is less fear.”2(p279) Still, there were mixed feelings about Bonaparte’s attack at Jaffa, where the men had taken ill. When attacking the walled fortress by storm on March 7 and 8, his troops ran amok and, in their fury, slaughtered soldiers, women, and children, both Christians and Muslims. Moreover, 2500 to 3000 Turkish troops who had surrendered were taken to a beach over the next several days and killed by the French troops. It was claimed that some of those who surrendered had betrayed an amnesty given them by the French at El Arish in an earlier battle and had re-entered the fighting force. The French insisted that they had no means to manage such a large contingent of prisoners and could not spare the resources to take them to Egypt. Shocked by this event, Citizen Peyrusse wrote home to his mother regarding his shame about the attack. He wrote when taking a city by storm, the looting, burning, and indiscriminate killing was

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M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.5.482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.63.5.482
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