Battle of Heliopolis (1800)
March 20, 1800 · Heliopolis
Result French victory
Jean-Baptiste Kléber's French army defeated a much larger Ottoman army near Cairo. The victory let the French retake Cairo and keep control of Egypt for another year.
France
Coalition
Strength and losses
- Strength
- 10,000–12,000c. 12,000
- Casualties
- 600c. 600
- Strength
- 50,000–60,000c. 50,000
- Casualties
- 9,000–10,000c. 10,000