In 1799, the young French Republic faced war with a coalition of European enemies, and an unpopular and corrupt government at home. In the midst of disorder, military hero Napoleon Bonaparte ...

In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte sailed with a French army to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy Ottoman province and deal a major blow to British ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to establish an empire in the East was crushed in 1799 at the Siege of Acre by Ahmed Jazzar Pasha. On 20 May 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte lifted the siege of the city of ...

Bonaparte was not only a warrior ... with a star of destiny shining over his ship. By the time Napoleon returned to France from Egypt in August 1799, he was famous. His brillant career ended ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader ... arrived in Egypt on an archaeological mission in September 1799. Related stories Napoleon's savants published a giant encyclopedia ...

It is up to me to give them an example." The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny. "From that moment," he said, "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the ...