Napoleon in Egypt: When Napoleon landed in Egypt in 1798, he issued a proclamation to the Egyptian people (translated into Arabic by the Orientalists that he brought with him). The text was printed in Al-Jabarti's Tarikh `Aja'ib Al-Athar: "On behalf of the French based [sic] on the foundations of freedom and concord...the people of Egypt know that for a long time, the Sanajiq who tyrannically rule in Egyptian lands treated with contempt and humiliation the French people, and they mistreated its merchants with abuse and harm, so the hour of their punishment has come...O, Egyptians, you have been told that I only came to this shore in order to get rid of your religion. That is blatant lying, so do not believe it, and tell the falsifiers that I only came to you to rescue your right from the hands of the tyrants, and that I, more than the Mamluks, worship God, Subhanahu wa ta`ala, and respect his prophet and the great Qur'an...O, clerics, judges, [] Imams, and notables, tell your nation that the French are also faithful Muslims, and that the evidence is that they descended on Great Rome and destroyed the seat of the Pope who always urged Christians to fight Islam...Article 2. Every village that rises up against French troops will be set on fire....And all Egyptians should thank God, Subhanahu wa ta`ala, for the demise of the Mamluk state, saying loudly "May God Extend the life of the glory of the Ottoman Sultan; may God extend the life of the glory of French troops; and may God damn the Mamluks, and repair the state of the Egyptian nation."
Later on, Napoloeon issued another proclamation which stated: "And a day will come when you will know from inspection that all what I have done and ruled about is divine rule that cannot be opposed."
(My translation from Al-Jabarti, Tarikh `Aja'ib Al-Athar, (the Dar Al-Kutub Al-`Ilmiyyah edition), vol. 2, pp. 128-129; and p. 167)