Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars. He commanded the French fleet in t
Portrait of d'Aigalliers
Bust of Brueys at the Galerie des Batailles
The French invasion of Egypt and Syria was a military expedition to Ottoman-held Egypt and Syria led by Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolutionary Wars. The campaign aimed to undermine British
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers
…lines open to French troops. Napoleon noted Brueys's conduct in Italy and made him commander-in-chief of the fleet that would transport his army for the French invasion of Egypt and Syria; promoted to vice admiral in 1798, he flew his flag on the 118-gun Orient. The fleet set sail from Toulon on 19 May 1798, and Brueys evaded British…
French campaign in Egypt and Syria
Landing of Napoleon's troops in Egypt in July 1798
The Battle of the Pyramids, Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808
The Battle of the Nile by Mather Brown, 1825