Siege of Alexandria

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Siege of Alexandria
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
Date 17 August - 2 September 1801 Location Alexandria, Egypt Result French surrender; end of Egyptian Campaign
Combatants
First French Republic	Great Britain
Commanders
General Menou #	General Hutchinson
Casualties
8,000 troops and civilians surrendered (later repatriated)	?

Egypt–Syria Campaign of 1798–1801
Shubra Khit – Pyramids – Nile – El Arish – Jaffa – Acre – Mount Tabor – 1st Aboukir – 2nd Aboukir – Alexandria

The Siege of Alexandria was fought between 17 August and 2 September 1801, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French and British forces and was the last action of the Egyptian Campaign. The French had occupied Alexandria, a major fortified harbour city on the Nile delta in northern Egypt, since 2 July 1798. A battle between the British and French was fought at Alexandria on 21 March 1801. The French surrendered to the British on 2 September 1801, under the terms of surrender the French were allowed to keep their personal weapons and baggage, and were returned to France by British ships. However, all French ships and cannons at Alexandria were surrendered to the British.

[edit] References

• Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.