Here is some literature related to 1799 French invasion A breif description of Gen Damas encounter with the peasants is at pages 69 at pages 75 and 76 footnotes 1 and 6 there is a mention of nahar el ougeh I believe this is the farthest the frensh were able to go closer to Majdal Yaba and I believe the peasents who attacked the french and the mountains inhabited by the Naplousians mentioned here are those of Majdal Yaba and it seams to me this is the reason why even the name of the village was not mentioned at this literature and it was name Megdeh at the map