Colonel Louis-Edmond Antoine le Picard de Phélippeaux was a French-born army officer best known for resisting the French invasion of Egypt and Syria. In 1783, Phélippeaux met Napoleon at the École Mil
Portrait of Phélippeaux
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of admiral in
Portrait by Robert Ker Porter, 1820
Smith participating in the destruction of the French fleet at Toulon in 1793
Smith being captured by the French off Le Havre on 18 April 1796
1796 portrait of Smith in the Temple Prison by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin