 Complete the following phrase:  The painting depicts the pivotal Battle of the Pyramids, fought between the French Armée dOrient under Napoleon Bonaparte and an army of Malmuk-controlled Egypt. The battle, fought on 21 July 1798, resulted in the near-destruction of the Mamluk army and the surrender of Cairo to the French. The victory caused elation in France, compounding the interest in Egypt often referred to as first wave of Egyptomania that Napoleons 