From Cairo in 1798 he sent a letter to Tipu, answering the latter’s pleas for help and outlining his grand strategy: You have already been informed of my arrival on the borders of the Red Sea, with an innumerable and invincible army, full of the desire of releasing and relieving you from the iron yoke of England. I eagerly embrace this opportunity of testifying to you the desire I have of being informed by you, by the way of Muscat and Mocha, as to your political situation. I wish you could send some sort of intelligent person to Suez or Cairo, possessing your confidence, with whom I may
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Correspondance between Nepoleon and Tipu Sulttan
