![]() ![]() By the nineteenth century, Egypt was no longer the glamorous prize it had been for Alexander. But he was also interested in Egypt itself, which his idol Alexander the Great had conquered in 332 B.C. He had a practical purpose: he wanted to kick the English out of the eastern Mediterranean and block their lucrative trade with India. ![]() In 1798, Napoleon, with some four hundred ships, set sail across the Mediterranean, bound for Egypt.
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