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Battle of Heliopolis

The Battle of Heliopolis was fought between the French Army of the Orient under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber and an Ottoman army at Heliopolis on 20 March 1800. The French were victorious, inflicting over 9,000 casualties on the Ottomans while suffering only 600 killed or wounded.

Battle of Heliopolis
Battle of Heliopolis · Engraved by Jeune Lefevre, from a painting by Charles Langlois (1789–1870), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
20 Mar 1800
Where
Heliopolis
Era
Modern

Topics

Egypt2,800 BCE – today

Before and after

Batavian Revolutionc. 1800Battle of Hohenlinden1800Show on timeline

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