Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa topic

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa (Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an 1804 painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Antoine-Jean Gros to portray an event during the French invasion of Egypt. The scene shows Napoleon during a striking scene which occurred in Jaffa in 1799, during which he tried to raise his troops' morale (and perhaps also test his own destiny) by approaching and touching those among them who had fallen victim to a plague epidemic which had... full article at wikipedia