In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte led a French expedition to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy province and deal a major blow to British interests in ...

When the French general invaded Egypt in 1798 — an event depicted somewhat ahistorically in the Ridley Scott film "Napoleon" — he brought along more than 150 engineers, mathematicians ...

On July 21, 1798, after marching two weeks across ... It was a meeting between the Europe of the future and the Egypt of the past. HORWARD: Napoleon just organized his army into five gigantic ...