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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