Siege of Alexandria

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Siege of Alexandria

Date	17 August - 2 September 1801
Location	Alexandria, Egypt
Result	French surrender; end of Egyptian Campaign; Decisive British Victory.

Belligerents

First French Republic

United Kingdom

Commanders

General Menou - PoW ^#

General Hutchinson

Casualties and losses

10,000 troops and civilians surrendered (later repatriated) All French ships & canon surrendered

v • d • e French Revolutionary Wars Egypt-Syria Campaign, 1798–1801

Shubra Khit – Pyramids – Nile – El Arish – Jaffa – Acre – Mount Tabor – 1st Aboukir – Heliopolis – 2nd Aboukir – Alexandria – Siege of Alexandria

v • d • e War of the Second Coalition

1st Stockach – Cassano – Montebello – Trebbia – Mantua – Novi – Bergen – Castricum – Genoa – 2nd Stockach – Marengo – Höchstädt – Hohenlinden – Copenhagen – Algeciras Swiss Campaign

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.

In his memoirs, the surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grand Army, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, remembers how the consumption of the meat of young Arab horses helped the French to curb an epidemy of scurvy. He would so start the 19th-century tradition of horse meat consumption in France^[1].