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
DateMay–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 First Republic French Republic United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
French First Republic Augustin Daniel Belliard Surrendered United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland John Hely-Hutchinson
Ottoman Empire 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
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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]

  1. ^ Mackesy 2013, pp. 187–190.
  2. ^ Barthorp 1992, p. 29.
  3. ^ a b Barthorp 1992, p. 6.
  4. ^ Wilson 1803, pp. 60–69.
  5. ^ James 1826, pp. 151–156.