Also the channel collaborated with Drachinifel, which means a very detailed but easily digested breakdown of everything that happened

Though I had somehow never considered that all the gold, gifts, and barter-able goods Napoleon needed for his Egypt campaign would be stored on the flagship

Which makes perfect sense! Not only was it the flagship, it wasn't a bad plan: it was easily the biggest and most heavily armed ship in the entire Mediterranean area, you'd think it was the safest and most logical place to store it.

Nobody can steal it and trying to take it would be suicide

the problem is that same flagship caught fire and blew the fuck up

so not only was the entire army cut off from supplies and anything even resembling support, they were also now effectively broke.

in the country they're at war with, with the Royal Navy and the British absolutely smelling blood

that they lasted as long as they did was nothing short of a damn miracle