Napoleon’s Men in the American Egypt
Veterans of Napoleon's Egypt campaign landed in the Gulf and Mississippi country in 1817–18, the same years Cairo and Memphis went on paper.
Egypt at the Center of the American State
A pyramid on the money, an obelisk at the capital, a lighthouse of the lodge. Egypt isn't just in the river towns. It's in the nation's core symbols, and Masons laid them.
The Grand Master Who Named Memphis
Andrew Jackson held a paper claim on the Memphis bluff for 24 years, cleared the Chickasaw title himself as a treaty commissioner, and his partners named the town Memphis. Then he became Grand Master of Tennessee's Masons.