Order of battle of the Armée d'Orient (1798)
Details of Napoleon's Army during expendition in Egypt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Armée d'Orient (English: Army of the Orient) was the French military force gathered by the French Directory to send on the expedition to Ottoman Egypt in 1798. The expedition had the intention of barring Great Britain's route to its colonies in India and was put under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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