Intervention of the French campaign
that landed the shores of Alexandria
to the west in early July 1798 in the Department of English French competition
for colonies in the East. And may this rivalry began in the seventeenth century
and continued throughout the eighteenth century, then taken a new dimension
after the revolution in France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The search for the colonies outside Europe a specificities of the modern era in the history of Europe after the end of feudalism and the nation-state and the presence of commercial capitalism.
After the industrial revolution, the need to markets and colonies is more vital for the European capitalist countries in imposing influence and sovereignty of the different regions in the New World and the Middle to get them on the cheap natural resources and then sell the products in the European markets.
That the idea of France's occupation of Egypt in the modern era, and after the end of the Crusades in the Middle Ages due to the seventeenth century during the rule of Louis XIV year 1672. And the purpose was to hit the Dutch trade in India, which pass through Egypt. The idea was renewed again days of Louis XV in the eighteenth century the year in 1769, but not by sending a military campaign, but the king of France was tempted to give up the Ottoman Empire to France from Egypt. The idea was repeated a third time, days of Louis XVI to facilitate the connection to France trade in East Asia via Egypt instead of turning around Africa.
In the initial days of the revolution revived the idea through the reports of the French consul in Egypt, where he urges the Government of the French Revolution to send a military campaign to save the French Trade and secure supplier of France in the area of risk Mamluks.
And the Government of the French Revolution prefer to beat England in their own backyard instead of hitting its interests in India by way of Egypt, but that Napoleon Bonaparte was Leary difficult to engage in a naval battle with England. And then project has won the invasion of Egypt in order to facilitate the passage of the French trade to the east instead of via the Cape of Good hope, which is controlled by the English fleet.
Found Bonaparte that the best way to consolidate the authority of France in Egypt that works to compliment the Ottoman state as much as possible, and to attract the Egyptians to the recipe, and it Bavhamanm he only came to fight the Mamluks strangers for the country and who drain Egypt's wealth and oppress its people, and it aims to create a be judged civil government in which the Egyptians and has expressed it in its publication on 27 June 1789 and distributed in Egypt before the arrival of the campaign to the Egyptian beaches.
Mamluk rulers were surprised the revelation of the campaign on the shores of Alexandria on July 1798 and was their strength had been consumed in internal conflicts among themselves, not direct interests to fortify the country's borders against potential hazards.
Before that up malic forces of Cairo, led by Murad Bey to meet the French, the people of Alexandria was led by Mr. Mohammad Karim Governor of the city have faced the invading forces, and for this French forces apprehended him and then executed by firing squad on September 6, 1798.
French troops marched on their way to the capital waiting for your Murad forces near Shoubrakhit in the lake on July 13, 1798, and defeated the army of the Mamluks and retreat to defend and Cairo at Imbaba link.
Mamluks army faced French troops again at Imbabah and defeated again, and Murad fled to your level and your Ibrahim fled the Ottoman governor of Egypt.