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> Frenchie crusaders helped the Turks fight Byzantium
> Francis I made an alliance with the Ottomans
> some sultans like Abdul Hamid I were part-French
> the French made up the "Levanitne" community of the empire
> Napoleon may have invaded Ottoman Egypt but he fought the Mamluks and British there more-so than the Turks
> Napoleon later invaded Russia with the Turks