Bernd 06/21/2020 (Sun) 19:39:42 No.38001 del
>>37997
>Frenchie crusaders helped the Turks fight Byzantium
>Francis I made an alliance with the Ottomans
>some sultans like Abdul Hamid I were part-French
>the French made up the "Levanitne" community of the empire
>Napoleon may have invaded Ottoman Egypt but he fought the Mamluks and British there more-so than the Turks
>Napoleon later invaded Russia with the Turks