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| rdfs:label | - French campaign in Egypt and Syria
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| rdfs:comment | - Despite many decisive victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria, Napoleon and his Armée d'Orient were eventually forced to withdraw, after sowing political disharmony in France, conflict in Europe, and suffering the defeat of the supporting French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.
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| Strength | - 40000
- Ottoman Empire: 220,000
*Army of Egypt: 80,000
*Army of Rhodes: 20,000
*Army of Syria: 20,000
*Army of the East: 30,000
*2nd invasion of Egypt: 60,000
Great Britain: 30,000
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| Partof | - the Mediterranean campaign of 1798
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| Date | |
| Commander | - Horatio Nelson
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Ibrahim Bey
- Jacques-Francois Menou
- Jean Baptiste Kleber
- Jezzar Pasha
- Murad Bey
- Mustafa Pasha
- Ralph Abercrombie
- William Sidney Smith
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| Caption | |
| Result | - *French conquest of Egypt ends Mameluke rule
*French expedition to Syria fails to establish hegemony in the Orient
*Capitulation of French administration in Egypt to British in September 1801
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| combatant | - French First Republic
*Armée d'Orient
- * Mamluks
* Beylik of Tunis
* Regency of Algiers
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| Conflict | |
| abstract | - Despite many decisive victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria, Napoleon and his Armée d'Orient were eventually forced to withdraw, after sowing political disharmony in France, conflict in Europe, and suffering the defeat of the supporting French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.
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