"A few months, or six years. It will all depend on how things run. I will colonize this country, import artists, workmen ... We are only 29, and shall be 35 then. That is still young. Six years will be sufficient for me to go to India, if all goes according to plans."

Napoleon to Bourrienne, May 1798, on the time required to complete his conquest of Egypt and his march on India.

"A company of comedians, a troupe of ballet dancers, a marionette show, 100 prostitutes, 200,000 pints of brandy, 1,000,000 pints of wine."

List of supplies requested from France by Napoleon following his occupation of Cairo in 1798.