NAPOLÉON Letter Signed Bonaparte to the Minister of War [Bar

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"I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO SEE THIS EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" NAPOLÉON. Letter Signed, "Bonaparte," to the Minister of War [Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer], in French, requesting temporary replacements for mathematician Gaspard Monge and artillery general Antoine-François Andréossy--who are away on other matters--so that the testing of incendiary cannonballs and hollow projectiles can proceed as quickly as possible. 1 page, 4to; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, folds, markings in red pencil at upper left likely contemporary to letter. Paris, "le 9 Ventôse an 6" [27 February 1798]

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On March 5th, 1798, six days after this letter was signed, the French Directory approved Napoléon's plan to invade Egypt and Syria.