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that no progress had yet been made on the issue, he was angered and struck the French consul in the face with the handle of a fly-whisk and ordered him out of his audience, calling him "an insolent infidel." News of the incident spread fast becoming an outrage in France where the incident promoted calls to restore French honor. This was rooted in Algerine demands that the French pay their debts contracted in 1799 when they purchased supplies to feed their soldiers during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt and Syria.

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