Mass Graves Found in Jaffa Date to Invasion by Napoleon
"We do not know if Napoleon slaughtered all 3,000 Turkish prisoners at Jaffa or only men who resumed fighting him after their release, as he tells us. There is no archaeological evidence to support the mass slaughter described in the memoirs of Napoleons secretary, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, who never missed an opportunity to stain the Corsican's reputation."
"...there remained only one way that answered on all the problems created, it was abominable, yet one believed that he (Napoleon) was obliged to take it." Miot 1814, 145
"It was necessary to be on the spot in order to understand the horrible necessity... I have a perfect conviction that he could not do otherwise...." Bourienne 1836, 182
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