" Despite the victory he won that day, the Egyptian campaign is a disaster. His troops were defeated by Admiral Wilson at Abukir. Soon after, the rest of the French forces suffered heavy losses because of a plague epidemic .Given the stagnation of its troops and having learned the difficulties of the management, Bonaparte Designated Kléber, command of the army of Egypt and returned to France.
The Coup of November 18th and the Establishment of the Consulate.
The Executive weakened, it is for the ambitious Napoleon the perfect opportunity to act. November 18, 1799 he seized power and had himself appointed provisional consul. He then adopted a new constitution that officially places the head of France as First Consul. By establishing the Consulate, the Constitution of the Year VIII puts an end to the Revolution. Napoleon did not take long to get to work; he made many reforms in administration: judiciary, education and finance. It creates among others the Bank of France in 1801 and the Civil Code in 1804. From 1800, General Bonaparte attacked again to the Austrians in Italy. He wants to regain the ground lost by the French armies while he was in Egypt. The campaign turns to his advantage and peace of Luneville signed 9 February 1801. The Treaty finally gave the left bank of the Rhine to France, and Austria was ousted from Italy. In March 1802 it was the British who sign the Peace of Amiens. Napoleon sought to establish lasting peace because wars that lasted for almost ten years out of breathe economically the great powers who opposed. Peace is, in fact, a truce because the English will launch an embargo against the French ships from May 1803. On December 24, 1800, Napoleon escaped an assassination Rue Saint-Nicaise in Paris. The attack, which a dozen deaths, attributed to the royalists. To warn all those who seek to eliminate him, Napoleon Bonaparte arrested on March 15, the Duke of Enghien, and gave him the death sentence by a special commission; he was immediately shot.
