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NAPOLEON_03 Battle of Aboukir

Third part of the series. Having prevailed in Italy, Napoleon sails to Egypt in an attempt to cut Great Britain's connection with India. He defeated the Mamelukes at the Pyramids and captured Cairo, but his fleet was destroyed in Aboukir Bay and thus he could not go back to France with his army anylonger. He also faces war with the powerful but steadily declining Ottoman Empire. A large ottoman army lands at Aboukir and Napoleon races to meet them...

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