✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

French campaign in Egypt and Syria

July 1, 1798 – September 2, 1801 · Cairo

Result Anglo-Ottoman victory

Bonaparte's expedition took Egypt from the Mamluks and marched into Syria, but failed at Acre; after he left, a British and Ottoman army forced the French garrisons of Cairo and Alexandria to surrender in 1801.

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Coalition

France

Regency of Algiers
Great Britain
Ottoman Empire
United Kingdom
Egypt
France
Selim III belligerent leader Horatio Nelson military commander Muhammad Ali of Egypt military commander George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie military commander Jezzar Pasha military commander Murad Bey military commander Ibrahim Bey military commander Haim Farhi military commander
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Sidney Smith military commander John Moore military commander Ralph Abercromby military commander John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore military commander Gordon Drummond military commander Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha military commander
Napoleon military commander Pierre-Charles Villeneuve military commander Louis-Nicolas Davout military commander Joachim Murat military commander François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers military commander Louis André Bon military commander Jean Lannes military commander Louis Desaix military commander
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Géraud Duroc military commander Jean Baptiste Kléber military commander Eugène de Beauharnais military commander Jean-Andoche Junot military commander Jacques-François Menou military commander Jean Reynier military commander Louis Bonaparte military commander Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
65,000

Ottoman Empire Strength 220,000 · Casualties 50,000 · Captured 15,000

Great Britain Strength 30,000

Casualties
15,000
Captured
23,500

Units

British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Battles and events 15