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Napoleon Part 3: The Egyptian Adventure
Real Dictators
A French Mission to Egypt
For classical scholars, scholars like napoleon, egypt retains an allure. It was their adventures in this fabled land that burneshed the legends of alexander the great and julius caesar. For a military campaign, there has to be a strategic motive. A french presence in the middle east, it is claimed, will hamper britain's dealings with india. Britain's trade with india actually goes by sea around the cape of southern africa. So using the middle east as a land born means of disrupting communications seems somewhat ambitious.
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