Napoleon, Egypt and Ayiti ("Egyptian Decoy" draft, triaged)

SUMMARYNapoleon, Egypt and Ayiti ("Egyptian Decoy" draft, triaged)

RECORDEgypt campaign 1798-1801; Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay, Aug 1, 1798; French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone at Rashid in July 1799 (now British Museum); the Leclerc expedition to Ayiti 1802-03 lost tens of thousands of soldiers to Ayitian armies and yellow fever; the defeat in Ayiti pushed Napoleon to sell Louisiana to the U.S. in 1803 (widely held by historians)

LENSthe real heist was in the Americas, and Ayiti's victory is what handed the U.S. the continent's center (Pattern, strongly supported by the chain). The Egypt-was-in-the-Americas reading stays Open (lens); the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian sites are the counter-evidence to test.