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Jaffa, Palestine: a busy street scene. Photograph by Félix Bonfils, ca. 1880.

Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa. Aquatint by G.A. Lehmann after Baron Gros.

Saint Peter raises Tabitha from the dead in Joppa. Engraving by P. van Borcht.

Another confirmation of the tender mercies of Bonaparte in Egypt! : Selected by his old friend John Bull : as proof of the veracity of Sir Robert Wilson's account of the tremendously inhuman murders perpetrated at Jaffa by order of that most sanguinary monster, and detestable tyrant, Bonaparte / John Bull, 32, Cornhill, July 25, 1803.

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Saint Peter raises Tabitha from the dead in Joppa. Engraving by P. van Borcht.

Jaffa, Palestine: a busy street scene. Photograph by Félix Bonfils, ca. 1880.

Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa. Aquatint by G.A. Lehmann after Baron Gros.