Napoleon led a military expedition.
Napoleon . In 1798 , he led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard to political power . The Saint-Domingue expedition was a French military expedition sent by Napoleon Bonaparte , then First Consul , under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola , and curtail the measures of independence taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture .