The future French emperor, born 250 years ago this month, in August 1769, made landfall at Alexandria on July 1, 1798. General Napoleon was the leading trailblazer. Īs the first modern Western military incursion into the Arab world, these would-be conquering European interlopers were on their way to making history. While his enormous armada, which included some 36,000 soldiers and more than 100 scientists and intellectuals, parted the summer waves of the Mediterranean, Napoleon's heart must have soared as he spied this land once renowned for its pharaohs. Not yet 30 years old, Napoleon Bonaparte was a man in a hurry, having risen swiftly through the military ranks during the bloody French Revolution. ![]() In June 1798, a young and power-hungry French general was nearing the coast of Egypt aboard the flagship Orient.
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