✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars, French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Battle of Alexandria (1801)

March 21, 1801 · Battle of Alexandria (1801)

Result British victory

Abercromby's British army beat Menou's attack outside Alexandria; Abercromby died of his wound.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France
United Kingdom
Jacques-François Menou military commander François Lanusse military commander Jean Reynier military commander
Sidney Smith military commander John Moore military commander Ralph Abercromby military commander John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
10,000–16,000c. 10,000
Casualties
1,700–5,000c. 3,500
Captured
c. 500
Guns
46c. 46
Guns lost
c. 2
Strength
12,000–14,20012,000
Casualties
1,500
Killed
243
Wounded
1,253
Missing
32
Guns
3535

Units

Army of the Orient
Abercromby's army in Egypt (1801)