Siege of Alexandria (1801)

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Siege of Alexandria
partof=the French Revolutionary Wars
campaign=


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date=17 August - 2 September, 1801
place=Alexandria, Egypt
result=British victory
combatant1=flagicon|France First French Republic
combatant2=flagicon|UK United Kingdom
commander1=Jacques-Francois Menou
commander2=John Hely-Hutchinson
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=10,000 surrendered
casualties2=

The Siege of Alexandria was fought between 17 August and 2 September, 1801, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French and British forces and was the last action of the Egyptian Campaign. The French had occupied Alexandria, a major fortified harbour city on the Nile delta in northern Egypt, since 2 July 1798. A battle between the British and French was fought at Alexandria on 21 March 1801. The French surrendered to the British on 2 September 1801, under the terms of surrender the French were allowed to keep their personal weapons and baggage, and were returned to France by British ships. However, all French ships and cannons at Alexandria were surrendered to the British.

In his memoirs, the surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grand Army, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, remembers how the consumption of the meat of young Arab horses helped the French to curb an epidemy of scurvy.He would so start the 19th-century tradition of horse meat consumption in FranceLarrey is quoted in French by Dr Béraud, " [http://leslivresoublies.free.fr/leslivresoublies/Sciences_et_techniques_muse/cheval.html Études Hygiéniques de la chair de cheval comme aliment] ", Musée des Familles (1841-42).] .

References

*Smith, D. "The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book". Greenhill Books, 1998.