Napoleon in Egypt (TRIH ep 126)
1798 · Resource
This episode examines Napoleon's Egyptian expedition of the late 1790s — its military drama, cultural consequences and longer-term global significance. Holland and Sandbrook narrate Napoleon's meteoric rise, the strategic aims of striking at Egypt to threaten British routes to India, and the dramatic clashes: the Battle of the Pyramids and the Royal Navy's crushing victory at Aboukir (the Battle of the Nile).
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