1. Nile River Valley - Modern History of Egypt and Sudan
... was short-lived and in 1799, British Admiral, Lord Nelson, with the hopes of ending the longstanding French threat to Britain's colonies, successfully destroyed Napoleon's fleet at Abukir, off the coast of Alexandria. However, the British, after this battle, only provided a military presence in the region, leaving the formal roles of government to the loosely Ottoman government under the rising leader ... ...
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