Siege of Cairo

Siege of Cairo
Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria of the French Revolutionary Wars
Principle Square In Grand Cairo, With Murad Bey's Palace circa 1801
Date May–June 1801 Location Cairo, Egypt, Ottoman Empire 30°02′40″N 31°14′09″E / 30.04444°N 31.23583°E / 30.04444; 31.23583 Result Anglo–Ottoman victory
Belligerents
French Republic	United Kingdom Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Augustin Daniel Belliard	John Hely-Hutchinson Yusuf Pasha
Strength
14,000[1]	20,000[2]
Casualties and losses
13,500 captured[3]	Low

War of the Second Coalition:
Egypt and Syria

800km
500miles

6

5

Jaffa

4

Cairo

3

Alexandria

2

Malta

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  current battle

  Napoleon in command till 23 August 1799

The siege of Cairo, also known as the Cairo campaign, was a siege that took place during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French and British with Ottoman forces and was the penultimate action of the Egyptian Campaign.^[4] British commander John Hely-Hutchinson advanced to Cairo, where he arrived after a few skirmishes in mid June. Joined by a sizeable Ottoman force Hutchinson invested Cairo and on 27 June the surrounded 13,000-strong French garrison under General Augustin Daniel Belliard, out-manned and out-gunned then surrendered. The remaining French troops in Egypt under Jacques-François Menou disheartened by this failure, retired to Alexandria.^[3][5]