✦ History

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

Battle of the Pyramids

July 21, 1798 · Battle of the Pyramids

Result French victory

The French squares beat the Mamluk cavalry of Murad Bey and took Cairo.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France
Ottoman Empire
Napoleon military commander Louis André Bon military commander Louis Desaix military commander Jean Reynier military commander
Murad Bey military commander Ibrahim Bey military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
25,000c. 20,000
Casualties
300c. 300
Killed
29
Wounded
260
Guns
30
Strength
21,000–50,000c. 60,000
Casualties
10,000c. 2,000
Guns
40
Guns lost
20c. 20

Units

Army of the Orient

Also involved 1