Murad Bey was an Egypt

Egypt

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ian Mamluk

Mamluk

A Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin, who were predominantly Cumans/Kipchaks The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior...

 chieftain (Bey

Bey

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), cavalry

Cavalry

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 commander and joint ruler of Egypt with Ibrahim Bey

Ibrahim Bey

Ibrahim Bey was an Egyptian Mamluk chieftain of Georgian origin.Ibrahim Bey was born as Abram Shinjikashvili into the family of a Christian priest in Martqopi in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. As a child, he was captured by Ottoman slave raiders and sold out in Egypt where he was...

. He was of Georgia

Georgians

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n origin having been born in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

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.

Following his defeat at the hands of Napoleon

Napoleon I of France

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's armies at the Battle of the Pyramids

Battle of the Pyramids

The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte, and local Mamluk forces. It occurred during France's Egyptian Campaign and was the battle where Napoleon put into use one of his significant...

, Murad fled to Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan north to the area between El-Ayait and Zawyet Dahshur . The northern section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Sohag is sometimes known as Middle Egypt...

, mounting a brief guerrilla

Guerrilla warfare

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 campaign that staved off Desaix for a year. It was while pursuing Murad Bey into Upper Egypt that the French discovered the monuments at Dendera

Dendera

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, Thebes

Thebes, Egypt

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, Edfu

Edfu

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 and Philae

Philae

Philae is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt...

.

In 1800, Murad made peace with Jean Baptiste Kléber

Jean Baptiste Kléber

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, and agreed to garrison

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 Cairo

Cairo

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, but died of bubonic plague

Bubonic plague

Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death...

on his journey there.