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OK, I am reading Juan Cole's "Napoleon's Egypt", and I have to write a 6-7 size paper as to why the French Invasion failed-I am half way through the book and already I can forsee Napoleopn's own OTL rise in France-but I think I also see possible ways to turn things around and create a Napoleonic Egypt.

My current Hyptothesis for this would be to correct the following:
1:Get the Bedouin tribes under better control/exterminate them effectivly
2.Caputre Ibraham Bey and the Ottoman Pasha, and the hoards of treasury they OTL escaped with=Napoleon can pay his troops and egyptians better so less looting and pillaging and with Bey and the Pasha more leverage.
3.Napoleon does ""convert"" (I use that loosely based on Napoleon's/Republican-Liber-France's views on religion) to Islam leading to at least better favor with the Muslim population (and the lil m in French deism becoming accepted).
4.Curbs or lessens the number of Coptics he puts into high positions-a mix of Muslim and Coptic.
5. So distraught and so emotionally unstable due to Josephenie's affairs Napoleon takes a somewhat spiteful attitude toward his wife (angry love) and his suspicions that the Directory only sent him to Egypt to weaken his position and that eventually he would be a target for assasination (which he would be OTL).
6.Napoleon declares his self for the Beyship of Egypt under the Ottomans. There-go combined with Nelson's blockade cuts him off from France and threatens the British blockade as being against the Ottomans. I felt that instead of allying with Russia (of course the Russians would backstab the Turks-eventually) Selim the Third uses Napoleon (and Western Tactics-he was at the time trying to create himself a "New Army") and the army loyal to him.


Let see thats what I have so far. Any thoughts? EDIT: I should say that as I get things fleshed out I'll make a timeline
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