 The French broke down the gates and stormed into the building, massacring the inhabitants.At the end of the revolt 5,000 to 6,000 Cairenes were dead or wounded.With Egypt quiet again and under his control, Bonaparte used this time of rest to visit Suez and see with his own eyes the possibility of a canal (known as the Canal of the Pharaohs) said to have been cut in antiquity between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean by order of the pharaohs.