 At 6 pm he set off for Paris, accompanied by his chief of staff Berthier.He stopped off at Saint-Raphaël, where he built a pyramid commemorating the expedition.The troops Bonaparte left behind were supposed to be honourably evacuated under the terms of the Convention of El Arish Kléber had negotiated with Smith and the Ottoman commander Kör Yusuf in early 1800, but Britain refused to sign and Kör Yusuf sent an amphibious assault force of 30,000 Mamlukes against Kléber.