During this campaign, several soldiers committed suicide out of hunger, despite having plenty of watermelons and grain cakes to eat. At a battle in this campaign, a commander told his men that "forty centuries look down upon you." Felicia Hemans's poem "Casabianca" dramatizes the explosion of the Orient during a battle in this campaign, which departed from Toulon after being reluctantly approved by the (*) Directory. Malta was captured on the way
During this campaign, several soldiers committed suicide out of hunger, despite having plenty of watermelons and grain cakes to eat. At a battle in this campaign, a commander told his men that "forty centuries look down upon you." Felicia Hemans's poem "Casabianca" dramatizes the explosion of the Orient during a battle in this campaign, which departed from Toulon after being reluctantly approved by the (*) Directory. Malta was captured on the way to its primary objective. Lord Nelson ambushed an anchored navy during this campaign at the Battle of Aboukir Bay. During this campaign, the soldier Pierre-Francois Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone. For 10 points, name this 1798-1801 expedition, during which Napoleon's army lost the Battle of the Nile.