Napoléon Bonaparte had grand ambitions when he landed in Egypt in 1798. A British flotilla and the desert country itself would thwart his dreams of empire. On June 9, 1798, the people of the oft-invaded Mediterranean island of Malta found themselves yet again under threat. A French fleet had appeared offshore, and its titular commander, …
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