 Complete the following phrase:  Napoleon, the leader of the French wars against Britain from the late 1790s until 1815, used the French fleet to convey a large invasion army to Egypt, a major remote province of the Ottoman Empire. British commercial interests represented by the Levant Company had a successful base in Egypt, and indeed the company handled all Egypts diplomacy. The British responded and sank the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, thereby trapping Napoleons army. Napoleon escaped. 