Siege of El Arish

Siege of El Arish
Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria of the French Revolutionary Wars
Date8–20 February 1799
Location31°07′56″N 33°48′12″E / 31.1321°N 33.8034°E / 31.1321; 33.8034
Result French victory
Belligerents
French First Republic France
Commanders and leaders
French First Republic Napoleon Bonaparte
French First Republic Jean Kléber
French First Republic Jean Reynier
Abdullah Pasha  (POW)
Strength
2,460 15,500
Casualties and losses
403 killed and wounded[1] 1,200 killed and wounded
1,800 captured[2]

The siege of El Arish was a successful siege by French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte against Ottoman forces under Mustafa Pasha. The French army, commanded by Jean Baptiste Kléber and Jean Reynier laid siege to the fortress of El Arish for nine days. The fortress finally fell to the French on 20 February 1799.

  1. ^ Micheal Clodfelter. Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and other numbers p.106
  2. ^ Micheal Clodfelter. Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and other numbers p.106