A report on French campaign in Egypt and Syria and Augustin Daniel Belliard

Landing of Napoleon's troops in Egypt in July 1798

Statue by Willem Geefs at Rue Royale in Brussels

Kléber wounded in front of Alexandria, engraving by Adolphe-François Pannemaker

The capture of Alexandria, bas-relief on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

1803 map noting fleet anchor points and location of 17 battles: Carte physique et politique de la syrie pour servir a l'histoire des conquetes du general Bonaparte en Orient

The Battle of the Pyramids, Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808

The Battle of the Nile: Destruction of L'Orient, August 1, 1798

Napoleon in Cairo, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 19th century, Princeton University Art Museum

The skeleton of Napoleon's Arabian horse, Marengo, on display at the National Army Museum in London

"Tracé du théatre des opérations militaires" from E.L.F. Hauet's manuscripts of the Campaign in Egypt at the American University in Cairo

The uprising in Cairo. Napoleon extended amnesty to the leaders of the revolt in 1798.

Bonaparte and his chief of staff in Egypt, painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1863

Napoleon visiting the plague victims of Jaffa, by Antoine-Jean Gros

Battle of Mount Tabor against the Ottomans

The monument to Napoleon's soldiers at Stella Maris Monastery, Haifa

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, (c. undefined 1868) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Hearst Castle

Assassination of Kléber, painting in the Musée historique de Strasbourg

British victory over the French at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801

The Egyptian Expedition under the orders of Bonaparte, painting by Léon Cogniet, early 19th century

General Murat at the battle of Abukir (July 1799), where thousands of Ottoman soldiers drowned in the Nile

A participant of the 1798 Egyptian expedition, he fought in the Battle of the Pyramids, became governor of Upper Egypt, and advanced with his troops into Nubia.

- Augustin Daniel Belliard

Bonaparte was the commander, with subordinates including Thomas Alexandre Dumas, Kléber, Desaix, Berthier, Caffarelli, Lannes, Damas, Murat, Andréossy, Belliard, Menou, and Zajączek.

- French campaign in Egypt and Syria

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Principle Square In Grand Cairo, With Murad Bey's Palace circa 1801

Siege of Cairo

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The siege of Cairo, also known as the Cairo campaign, was a siege that took place during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French and British with Ottoman forces and was the penultimate action of the Egyptian Campaign.

Joined by a sizeable Ottoman force Hutchinson invested Cairo and on 27 June the surrounded 13,000-strong French garrison under General Augustin Daniel Belliard, out-manned and out-gunned then surrendered.