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Events relating to africa
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
Napoleon, with distinguished scientists in his fleet, sails to invade Egypt
Napoleon's campaign in Egypt begins well with the Battle of the Pyramids, a victory over an Egyptian army
Disaster strikes the French in Egypt when Nelson finds their fleet in Aboukir Bay and destroys it in the Battle of the Nile
Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt
Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity
The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands
The USS Philadelphia is captured, with its 300 crew, in the first Barbary War between the US and north African pirate states
The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch
The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade
The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms
The Fulani establish a capital at Sokoto, from which they dominate the Hausa kingdoms of northern Nigeria
All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo
The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands
Napoleon is sent to a more secure place of exile, the rocky Atlantic island of St Helena
Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa
Shaka wins control of the Zulu and begins to build them into a formidable military machine
The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade
The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa
An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan
Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity
The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves
Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone
Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal
The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA
