Short answers, pulled from the story.
Napoleon Bonaparte departed from Toulon in May 1798 with a fleet of around 36,000 troops. The campaign aimed to undermine British trade routes and expand French influence into the eastern Mediterranean.
On the 20th of July, the French army advanced as far as Umm Dinar, 29 kilometers north of Cairo. An Egyptian force under Murad Bey gathered on the west bank of the Nile at Imbaba where the French fended off attacks and counter-attacked putting the Mamluks to flight.
Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the Rosetta Stone in July 1799 while working as part of the scientific team included in the invading force. Many antiquities discovered by the French were signed over to the British at the end of the campaign.
An unusual aspect of the expedition was the inclusion of 167 scientists and scholars assigned to the invading force. These included engineers artists geologists mathematicians chemists physicists naturalists botanists and an engineer named Nicolas-Jacques Conté.
By March 1801 the French surrendered at Alexandria after being besieged for weeks. Menou eventually capitulated to the British from the 17th of August to the 2nd of September under terms that allowed the French army to be repatriated in British ships.