Jean-Andoche Junot
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Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for leading the French invasion of Portugal in 1807.
Junot leading his troops against the Ottomans near Nazareth, in The Combat of Nazareth by Antoine-Jean Gros (1801)
Junot protecting the city of Lisbon, allegory by Domingos Sequeira (1808)
Junot and his wife Laure, by Marguerite Gérard
French invasion of Malta
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The French invasion of Malta was the successful invasion of the islands of Malta and Gozo, then ruled by the Order of St. John, by the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte in June 1798 as part of the Mediterranean campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Letter dated 19 April 1798 written by Napoleon instructing General Louis Desaix to set sail from Civitavecchia and meet up with him at Malta
Painting of Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim, the last Grand Master to rule Malta
Fort Rohan, which fell to the French after some resistance
The Sopu Tower, which was located close to the landing site and offered some resistance to the invasion