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What was Napoleon doing in Egypt? Was it really that important or was there something else he had in mind? Can we discuss his Egyptian campaign? I am more interested in the Egyptian army, if one can call it that, any reading on it? I am completely at a loss when it comes to the Ottoman/Egyptian armies facing Napoleon.
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>>2540822
It was a way of undermining British control in India, before the canal was built Suez was still used as an overland transport and trade route.
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>>2540822
It was primarily a way of the Directory of getting him far away from them so he wouldn't pull a Caesar like he eventually did.
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He was trying to connect the French to their allies in India, the Mysore.
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>>2540822
I don't know but he should have kept his faggot ass out of there. He had no business being there desu, and the damage he caused to the monuments there is unforgivable.
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>>2540822
defining the boundaries of his empire, a rome from the seat of gaul
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Find this book
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He really thought he was the reincarnation of Augustus or some shit.
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