新GRE写作名人素材库：拿破仑_GRE写作

新GRE写作名人素材库：拿破仑

　　Napoleon reorganized the government, the postal service, and the system for collecting taxes; introduced the first printing presses; created a health department; built new hospitals for the poor in Cairo; and founded the Institut dEgypte. During the French occupation the Rosetta Stone was discovered, and the Nile was explored as far south as Aswan. But the military aspect of Napoleons Egyptian venture was not so rewarding. On August 1, 1798, Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet in Aboukir Bay, leaving the French army cut off from France. Then Napoleons Syrian campaign ended in the unsuccessful siege of Acre and a return to the Nile. After throwing a Turkish army back into the sea at Aboukir , Napoleon left the army under the command of Gen. Jean Baptiste Kler and returned to France with a handful of officers.

　　The Consulate

　　Landing at Frus on October 9, 1799, Napoleon went directly to Paris, where the political situation was ripe for a coup detat. France had become weary of the Directory, and in collaboration with Emmanuel Joseph Siey, Joseph Fouch? and Talleyrand, Napoleon overthrew the government on 18 Brumaire . The Constitution of the Year VIII provided for the Consulate. Napoleon was named first consul and given virtually dictatorial powers. The trappings of the republic remained--there were two legislative bodies, the Tribunate and the Corps Legislatif--but real power rested in the hands of the first consul.