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The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a major engagement fought on 21 July 1798, during the French Invasion of Egypt. The battle took place near the village of Embabeh, across the Nile River from Cairo, but was named by Napoleon after the Great Pyramid of Giza visible nearly nine miles away.
This city was surrounded by high walls flanked by towers. Jezzar had entrusted its defence to elite troops, with the artillery manned by 1,200 Ottoman gunners. The city was one of the ways into Syria, its port could be used by his fleet and a large part of the expedition's success depended on its fall.
The siege of Jaffa was a military engagement between the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Ottoman forces under Ahmed al-Jazzar. On March 3, 1799, the French laid siege to the city of Jaffa, which was under Ottoman control. It was fought from March 3-7, 1799. On March 7, French forces managed to capture the city.
Mameluk Egypt: Victory October 21, 1798 - October 22, 1798: Revolt of Cairo: French invasion of Egypt and Syria: French-occupied Egypt: Victory January 11, 1799 – January 19, 1799: Siege of El Arish: French invasion of Egypt and Syria: Mameluk Egypt: Victory March 3, 1799 - March 7, 1799: Siege of Jaffa: French invasion of Egypt and Syria ...
In the Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir or Abu Qir) [2] Napoleon Bonaparte defeated Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army on 25 July 1799, during the French campaign in Egypt. [6] It is considered the first pitched battle with this name, as there already had been a naval battle on 1 August 1798, the Battle of the Nile.
Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, painted by Thomas Whitcombe in 1816. The Battle of the Nile was a significant naval action fought from 1 to 3 August 1798. The battle took place in Aboukir Bay, near the mouth of the River Nile on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, and pitted a British fleet of the Royal Navy against a fleet of the French Navy.
The British Army in Egypt 1801. Warwick: Helion. ISBN 978-1-911628-14-9. François, Capt. Charles (1906). From Valmy to Waterloo. Extracts from the diary of Capt.Charles François, a soldier of the Revolution and the Empire. Vol. VI (facsimile ed.). London: Everett & co. Gloucestershire Museum (2023). "Battle of Alexandria".
The siege of Acre of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman city of Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria, along with the Battle of the Nile.