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continuously dependent on the

general.

In his efforts to try to destroy the

British, which he thought was the

main enemy and sole threat to

France, he embarked on an Egyptian

expedition, in which he sought to

undermine the trade between Britain

which in return France was allowed and Asia.

control of the Low countries (the In Egypt, Napoleon was hindered

Netherlands and Belgium), as well by the British and the Ottoman

as the rest of Italy. He returned to Empire, which decided that French

France as a hero, and the republican occupation of the area would

government found themselves hinder their interests. Napoleon