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Article: Occupation and withdrawal, 1801-3.(The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt, Part 4)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
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- April 1, 1995
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When the British ambassador, Lord Whitworth, was recalled from Paris on 13 May 1803 and the British government declared war on France, they fought for the reason they had fought in 1798, to head off a French invasion of Egypt. Although Napoleon Bonaparte was not planning a second invasion of Egypt, he had convinced the British that he was, and had convinced the Russians that he was planning to partition the Ottoman Empire. Thus, even if the terms of the peace of Amiens expressed Great Britain's willingness to accept French hegemony in Western Europe, as Paul W. Schroeder suggests in his masterly new study of the European international system,(1) the British were not willing ...