Volney correctly predicted Muslim resistance would doom the Egyptian invasion
Evidence
Volney thought that, faced with such opposition, the occupation of Egypt was not feasible and that Muslim resistance to French rule would be particularly intractable. How right he was. The 1798 French expedition to Egypt was a military disaster to be compared with the Gallipoli landings, the Arnhem parachute drop and Dien Bien Phu. The most astonishing thing about the debacle is that its commander, Bonaparte, went on to have quite a successful military career. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 245