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The idea that Napoleon could threaten the British in India if he successfully took Egypt seems ridiculous to me. Did he really believe he could march overland, all the way through Persia, like Alexander if he’d conquered Egypt?

by /u/Rob-With-One-B in /r/AskHistorians

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