Napoleon, with a very small company, secretly…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

Napoleon, with a very small company, secretly leaves Egypt for France on August 22, leaving his troops behind and General Jean-Baptiste Kleber as his successor.

Kleber finds himself the unwilling commander in chief of a dispirited army with a bankrupt treasury.

His main preoccupation is to secure the evacuation of his troops to France.

When Britain rejects the evacuation plan, Kleber is forced to fight.

After Kleber's assassination by a Syrian, his command is taken over by General Jacques-François Menou, who, as a recent a French convert to Islam, becomes known as Abdallah de Menou.

The occupation is finally terminated by an Anglo-Ottoman invasion force.

The French forces in Cairo surrender on June 18, 1801, and Menou himself surrenders at Alexandria on September 3.

The last French forces leave the country by the end of September.

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Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt View →

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Ibrahim Bey View → Jacques-François de Menou View → Jean Baptiste Kléber View → Murad Bey View → Napoleon View → Selim III View →

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Egyptians View → Arab people View → Circassians View → Jews View → Bedouin View → Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria View → Islam View → Egypt in the Middle Ages View → Muslims, Sunni View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View → Egypt, Ottoman eyalet of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → French First Republic View →

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