Bonaparte sails in May for Alexandria with over thirty-five thousand troops on three hundred and fifty ships, capturing Malta en route and arriving in Egypt in June having avoided Admiral Horatio Nelson’s British fleet.

Bonaparte occupies Alexandria and Cairo, reorganizes the government and guarantees Islamic Law.

Nelson attacks and destroys the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile at Abukir Bay on August 1.

Bonaparte, unable to leave Egypt, continues to reorganize the nation and helps establish the Institute of Egypt to methodically study ancient Egypt.