Battle of Abukir (1799)
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The Battle of Abukir was fought on 25 July 1799 between the French Army of the Orient under Napoleon Bonaparte and an Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha during the French invasion of Egypt and Syria. It
Battle of Aboukir (1804)
Battle of Abukir, 25 July 1799 by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1806
Aboukir fort and peninsula, as it was in 1813.
"The Battle of Aboukir", relief by Bernard Seurre on the South Façade of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of admiral in
Battle of Abukir (1799)
…No sooner had the French forces returned from a campaign to Syria, than the Ottoman forces were transported to Egypt by an Anglo-Ottoman fleet under Sidney Smith to put an end to French rule in Egypt. Mustafa Pasha was an experienced commander who had fought against the Russians. He knew that cavalry charges…
Portrait by Robert Ker Porter, 1802
Smith participating in the destruction of the French fleet at Toulon in 1793
Smith being captured by the French off Le Havre on 18 April 1796
1796 portrait of Smith in the Temple Prison by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin