Napoleon I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Bonaparte sailed in May, 1798, succeeded in evading Horatio Nelson , and took Malta on the way to Egypt. Shortly after landing...the French fleet was utterly destroyed (Aug. 1 2) by Nelson in Aboukir Bay. The Ottoman Empire, of which Egypt was...had grown stronger than ever through Nelsons victory at Trafalgar (1805), and Napoleon resolved to defeat Britain by economic...