 Two journals were set up in Cairo, one for literature and political economy under the name "Décade égyptienne", and the other for politics under the title "Courrier égyptien".Its numbers hugely reduced by deaths in action and from disease, the army could no longer hope for reinforcements from France after the naval disaster at Aboukir, but Bonaparte tried to overcome this problem by levying from among the slaves in Egypt between the ages of 16 and 24 and turning the 3,000 sailors who had survived Aboukir into a "légion nautique".All the streets in Cairo were closed at night by gates to stop the inhabitants aiding the Arabs in a night attack on the French.