Which sentence from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone explains why Napoleon and his men were temporarily trapped in Egypt in 1798?

Napoleon’s army captured the city of Alexandria by storm on July 1, 1798, and rapidly overran the Nile Delta.
On August 1 the British surprised the French fleet at anchor near Alexandria and completely destroyed it.
For the next year, the army fended off [resisted] attacks by the Turks, who had formerly ruled Egypt.
Then, in August 1799, Napoleon evaded [escaped] the British naval blockade and returned with a new companion to France to deal with problems there.

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The sentence from "The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" that explains why Napoleon and his men were temporarily trapped in Egypt in 1798 is:

B. On August 1, the British surprised the French fleet at anchor near Alexandria and completely destroyed it.

"The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" is a book by Jame Cross Giblin in which the author tells the story of how the Rosetta Stone was discovered and deciphered.

It was the Rosetta Stone that helped scholars finally understand Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The stone was discovered by the French army in Egypt. Napoleon and his men had stayed there, temporarily trapped.

The reason is that the British army surprised the French fleet and destroyed it, which prevented the French from leaving.

With the information above in mind, we can choose letter B as the best option.

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