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Battle of Heliopolis (1800)
1800 battle during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Heliopolis was an engagement that pitted the French Armée d'Orient under General Kléber against an Ottoman army, supported by British forces, at Heliopolis[2] on 20 March 1800.
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Battle of Heliopolis | |||||||
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Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria during the War of the Second Coalition | |||||||
![]() Bataille d'Héliopolis, by Leon Cogniet | |||||||
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10,000 men[1] | 60,000 men[1] | ||||||
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600 dead or wounded | 9,000 dead, wounded or captured | ||||||
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