I'm currently reading 'The Nile' by Terje Tvedt (2021). It covers European and particularly British involvement in Egypt, and all the Nile countries to the south.

In addition to the battle of Abukir, 1801, mentioned earlier, there was a later British expedition sent to Egypt in 1807. Egypt was controlled then by Muhammed Ali, originally from Albania, who was resisting British interference - they had been forced to leave Alexandria in 1803.

About 5000 British Soldiers were sent to Egypt in March 1807 to force him to be more cooperative. They took the city of Rashid (aka Rosetta as in the stone) which is a port city on the delta (so actually on the Banks of the Nile) but were counter-attacked and barely managed to retreat. The heads of 185 British soldiers were sent to Cairo and displayed on stakes - as Napoleon had done earlier to the captured Mamluks. A second attempt to take Rasid ended in disaster; British captives were marched past the rotting heads of their former comrades.

I found the book interesting, particularly on Sudan (or rather both Sudans, it's up to date) about which I knew little, and which the British took to maintain leverage on Egypt by controlling the Nile. (And where they banned Christian missionaries who were disturbing the peace by converting Muslims.)