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    The Capitulation of Alexandria in August 1801 brought to an end the French expedition to Egypt. French troops, who had been abandoned by Napoleon Bonaparte...
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    of capitulation. The terms as amended by British commanders and put into effect are known as the Capitulation of Alexandria. By 2 September total of 10...
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    Küçük Hüseyin Pasha (category Ottoman military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was one of the signatories of the Capitulation of Alexandria (1801). Mitsi, Efterpi (2014). "Commodifying Antiquity...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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  • British at the Capitulation of Alexandria. Relations between the Ottoman Empire and France had been strained with the French acquisition of the Ionian Islands...
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    force and defeated in a campaign during the summer of 1801, surrendering at the Capitulation of Alexandria in August. Although he totally failed to achieve...
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    next day, 20th of March, the rest of the transports appeared off Alexandria, and an Arab messenger was sent with an offer of capitulation that was accepted...
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    War of the Second Coalition: Egypt and Syria 800km 500miles 6 5 Jaffa 4 Cairo 3 Alexandria 2 Malta 1    The French invasion of Egypt and Syria was a military...
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    French, they took the stone to London under the terms of the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. Since 1802, it has been on public display at the British...
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    Cocarde-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her in 1801 at the fall of Alexandria, named her HMS Alexandria, sailed her back to Britain...
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    Alexandria at the capitulation on 2 September 1801 after the fall of Alexandria. The British and their Turkish allies agreed to a division of the spoils; the...
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    Cairo at his headquarters before Alexandria. Article 12 of the capitulation treaty made clear than any inhabitant of Egypt whatever their religion would...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Alexandria, Egypt. 331 BC – Rhacotis renamed "Alexandria" by Alexander the Great (approximate...
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  • Thumbnail for John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
    second-in-command of the 1801 expedition to Egypt, under Abercromby. Following Abercromby's death in March after being wounded at the Battle of Alexandria, Hely-Hutchinson...
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    French at the Battle of the Nile and remained in the Mediterranean to support the Kingdom of Naples against a French invasion. In 1801, Nelson was dispatched...
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    Edward Daniel Clarke (category Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge)
    afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke helped to secure for England a number of statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts...
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    a naval battle on 1 August 1798, the Battle of the Nile. (A second pitched battle followed on 8 March 1801.) No sooner had the French forces returned from...
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    too late. Hostilities continued until the surrender of French forces at Alexandria in August 1801, after which the French troops were returned to France...
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    Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    during the Expédition d’Égypte of 1798-1801 when he was a commander of the French cavalry forces. On the march from Alexandria to Cairo, he clashed verbally...
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    operation. In 1801, a British army landed in Northern Egypt, sparking a short campaign which ended with the Capitulation of Alexandria and the complete...
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    HMS Foudroyant (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    armistice to discuss terms of capitulation. Because Foudroyant had served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers...
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    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Fourier. On the capitulation of Alexandria in August 1801, he took part in resisting the claim made by the British general to the collections of the expedition...
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    Eyre Coote (British Army officer, born 1762) (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Queen's County constituencies)
    in command before Alexandria, and conducted the blockade of that city from April to August 1801. Coote appears as one of the Heroes of the Egypt Campaign...
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    defeat, the Rosetta Stone was seized by Britain, under terms of the Treaty of Alexandria in 1801. It is now housed in the British Museum in London. The Luxor...
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  • Bataillon Chasseurs d'Orient (category Infantry battalions of France)
    refused to be evacuated to mainland France after the Capitulation of Alexandria in August. Less than half of the Coptic Legion boarded French ships, with their...
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    portion of the British Army under General Coote from Cairo to the west of Alexandria. The Siege of Alexandria ended on 30 August with the capitulation of Alexandria...
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  • Siege of Fort Julien (1801) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria Siege of Porto Ferrajo (1801) – War of the Second Coalition Siege of Alexandria (1801) –...
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    Richard Church (general) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1801, where he took part in the Battle of Abukir and the taking of Alexandria. After the expulsion of the French from Egypt he...
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  • Abukir 13 March 1801 CE Battle of Mandora 21 March 1801 CE Battle of Alexandria 17 August – 2 September 1801 CE Siege of Alexandria 18 May 1803 CE –...
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    British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (category 19th-century history of the British Army)
    Battle of Abukir (1801). Abercromby was mortally wounded at the Battle of Alexandria, where the British troops demonstrated the effectiveness of their...
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