When Phone-Tapping Was Honourable | The Battle of The Nile (Part 3/10)
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Why did Napoleon decide to invade Egypt in 1798?
Welcome back to Finn vs. History. I'm joined by Horatio Gauls.
Whoa
We have entered the Middle East. We're in Egypt. That was the siren call. That was a before woke uh historical epic set in the Middle East.
A nineteen sixties A nineteen sixties epic where, yes, you know, to today's eyes, the protagonist looks a rather bit blackface. Sure. A Royal Shakespeare company.
veteran, one of the great stage actors uh in the world will be blacking up to play a brown person. The white man will be using black paint to play someone who's brown.
They'll be browning up to play a black man because makeup was very sophisticated in those days. Yes, okay. Uh unsophisticated I meant. There was not the Dulux colour chart there is now.
Uh we are in Egypt. Well I don't think that's why people are judging the I don't think it's don't don't judge uh don't tell me what how I'm judging it.
I'm judging it on the sophistication of the
grade. It's more na it's not that now we've got a whole miracle of colours to black up in. Now you can really tell much more detail. Matt
Lucas, the sophistication of the Little Britain blackface. I could see the the border between Uganda and Kenya. I could see the border in Matt Lucas's blackface, you know. When I'm looking at precious from Come Fly With Me, I can see I'd say that's St Nevis. Kit St. Nevis. I'd fucking get to sleep, it's my SMR. Come fly with me. Because
obviously the little Briton lot Wallyum's getting getting his Todger out and whatever. Um allegedly. Allegedly, Lucas with the blackface. They got a bad rap, you know, and then we kind of went I was on a holiday, I know we went back to watch a bit of Come Fly with me. More to like laugh at it, but
you could check in with the scripture, check in with the camera.
But I was like, fuck me, that's funny.
I was really surprised. No, no one said it wasn't funny.
The performances. They're both because also Wallyams has always given me the cruise, but he he bodies it. No one's not. He's fucking both of them are dynamite.
No one no one says it's not funny. Yeah. Then
there's Japanese school girls. They they're it's fucking awesome. I'm gonna lie.
You know, if you have to got the BBC budget behind you, fucking do that. No, no, they're there's a talent there. There's there's talent. Oh, there's unbelievable uh being uh being um a white guy's pretending to be black. They're unbelievable at it. You know, I doff my blackface cap Uh Lucas and Williams. Yeah. Sages. Yeah. Uh however, um yes, we're in Egypt, sorry. Quick blackface tangent before the Battle of the Nile. We are in uh seventeen ninety eight. Oof. And it is our first meeting. It's the twenties. Napoleon and Nelson. Sort of. Sort of. Um trying to create narrative tension. Yeah.
This is
part three. I don't think I don't think there was.
I think there was 'cause the the fact that they well, the fact that they never met, I think the fact that you know, Nelson sort of crawling around in the moat.
Mm-hmm.
And then n uh Napoleon's like a tiger walking around on land. There's just that there's a there's a kinetic sexual energy, don't you think, about them all just sort of and also the fact that Nelson's sort of chasing after him. Well, there's a bit of that. And it's like, Oh, who's behind me? Yeah. But Do you not find it really That there's there's a kind of there's a unspoken sexual tension there?
I don't think Napoleon had any sexual tension. I think he just busted him two seconds and that was it. Yeah and he just made people tense. Yeah. He would say the sexual tension here, they'd be like, No, no, no. Potting who were top. Nelson's top. Nelson's top. Absolutely.
Yes.
Nelson tops everyone.
Yes, but I'll tell you what, Nelson might bottom because Nelson, as much as he can think for himself, he is a subservient man who will bend for country.
King a king and a country.
You know, and Napoleon doesn't bend for anyone.
So he's gonna bend down and think of England. Bend over a think of
England. 'Cause as much as he's a a hero, he will bend when it comes to it. He lays down he
lays down his life, you know. You're right. I think it'd be fascinating because uh you know, Nelson would go for the would straight away just go the most direct thing.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Napoleon decide to invade Egypt in 1798?
0:09–8:31
2
How did the British learn of Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign?
8:31–18:49
3
What was Admiral Nelson’s strategy for locating the French fleet?
18:49–28:25
4
How did the geography of Aboukir Bay shape the Battle of the Nile?
28:25–38:27
5
What were the key moments of the night‑time explosion of the French flagship L’Orient?
38:27–47:37
6
How did the battle’s outcome affect Napoleon’s position in Egypt?
47:37–54:01
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