Battle of Heliopolis (1800)

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Battle of Heliopolis
Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria during the War of the Second Coalition
Bataille d'Héliopolis, by Leon Cogniet
Date 20 March 1800 Location Heliopolis 30°10′N 31°20′E / 30.167°N 31.333°E / 30.167; 31.333 Result French victory
Belligerents
French Republic	Ottoman Empire Great Britain[1]
Commanders and leaders
Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean Reynier Louis Friant Augustin Daniel Belliard François-Xavier Donzelot Pierre Leclerc d'Ostein Joseph Lagrange Antoine Joseph Robin	Nassif Pasha Ibrahim Bey
Strength
10,000 men[1]	60,000 men[1]
Casualties and losses
600 dead or wounded	9,000 dead, wounded or captured
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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.