Escape to Egypt

James Blackstock, a very wealthy individual with a social conscience who studied as a doctor and surgeon while developing as a person, married to a very ambitious wife who has political and financial desires bringing property and industrial enterprises under her control and with loose morals who drives her husband along a similar path, in times of war he leaves for a command in Egypt to drive the French from that country and learning of the ancient times in that country dominated by the river Nile. While Britain grew as an industrial power.