They were in the middle of the desert. It would be a large risk to trek through such a large desert to attack them.
They were supposed to meet the French Foreign Minister,Charles Maurice de Telleyrand, instead he sent three agents Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy and Lucien Hauteval to negotiate a bribe of 50,000 pounds and a loan to the French government before negotiations could begin.
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A.) Comparative Mythologists