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| Battle of Heliopolis | |||||||
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| Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria during the War of the Second Coalition | |||||||
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Cogniet_Leon_Bataille_D_Heliopolis.jpg) Bataille d'Héliopolis, by Leon Cogniet | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 French Republic |
 Ottoman Empire[1] | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean Reynier Louis Friant Augustin Daniel Belliard François-Xavier Donzelot Pierre Leclerc d'Ostein Joseph Lagrange Antoine Joseph Robin Murad Bey |
Nassif Pasha Ibrahim Bey | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 10,000 including 300 Mamluks[1] | 60,000 men[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 600 dead or wounded | 9,000 dead, wounded or captured | ||||||
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Relief_Map_of_Mediterranean_Sea.png)  Location within Mediterranean &sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:World_location_map_(equirectangular_180).svg) Battle of Heliopolis (1800) (Earth) | |||||||
The Battle of Heliopolis was an engagement that pitted the French Armée d'Orient under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber against an Ottoman army at Heliopolis on 20 March 1800. The French were victorious, inflicting over 9,000 casualties on the Ottomans while suffering only 600 killed or wounded.[2]
- ^ a b c Tucker 2009, p. 1021.
- ^ Charles River, ed. (2018). Napoleon in Egypt: The History and Legacy of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria. ISBN 978-1718863620.