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Any idea why the ottomans felt obliged to "gift" another obelisk to the brits though?

• orwin 1y ago
  Yes, probably because the British helped the ottomans push back the Napoleonic army before they could enter 'true' ottoman lands (basically stopped them at Rafah or something, I have to check) then let the ottomans retake Egypt for free, without involving other regional powers (it was under ottoman rules in name only when Napoleon was sent there, and truly ruled by ottomans when he got kicked out). I have _not_ read about the English empire in this era, so I might be absolutely wrong. I mostly know French (and Italian somehow) 'modern' history (and only part of it, im not well read on the first Napoléonic empire, just on the moments before, the moments after, and the late second empire)