The plan was for the Mamluks to march to Cairo to occupy it, while the British would capture several strategically important Egyptian ports, and then march to the Delta and occupy Cairo, provided that the Mamluks assisted their forces in Egypt, especially the Millennium Front. General Fraser was in Alexandria, had received a report from the British Consul in Rashid on the state of Egypt and its forces, which made him march overland to Rashid to occupy it, and establish a military base for his forces, and assigned the commander "and is serving" this military mission.