Timeline and Battles
- 1798
- 19 May (30 Floréal year VI) : Departure from Toulon
- 11 June (23 Prairial year VI) : Capture of Malta
- 1 July (13 Messidor year VI) : Landing at Alexandria
- 21 July (3 Thermidor year VI) : Battle of the Pyramids, French land victory
- 1 and 2 August (14-15 Thermidor year VI) : Battle of the Nile, British naval victory over French squadron anchored in Aboukir Bay
- 10 August : Battle at Salheyeh, French victory
- 7 October : Battle of Sédiman, French victory
- 21 October (30 Vendémiaire) : Cairo Revolt
- 1799
- 7 March : Siege of Jaffa, French victory
- 20 May (1 Prairial an VII) : Siege of Acre, French troops retire after eight assaults
- 8 April : Battle at Nazareth, French victory, Junot with 500 defeats 3000 Turks
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- 11 April : Battle of Cana, French victory, Napoleon wins a great battle against Turks
- 16 April (27 Germinal year VII) : Bonaparte relieves the troops under Kléber just as the latter are about to be overwhelmed at the foot of Mount Tabor
- 1 August (14 Thermidor year VII) : Battle of Abukir, French victory
- 23 August (6 Fructidor year VII) : Bonaparte embarks on the frigate Muiron and abandons command to Kléber
- 1800
- 24 January (4 Pluviôse year VIII) : Kléber concludes the convention of El-Arich with the British admiral Sidney Smith
- February (Pluviôse-Ventôse year VIII) : French troops begin their withdrawal, but the British admiral Keith refuses to recognize the convention's terms.
- 20 March (29 Ventôse year VIII) : Battle of Heliopolis, Kléber wins one last victory, against a force of 30,000 Ottomans
- 14 June (25 Prairial year VIII) : A fanatic named Suleiman al-Halabi assassinates Kléber in his garden in Cairo. General Menou, a convert to Islam, takes over command
- 3 September (16 Fructidor year VIII) : The British recapture Malta from the French
- 1801
- 8 March (17 Ventôse year IX) : British landing near Aboukir
- 21 March (30 Ventôse year IX) : Battle of Alexandria, French defeat, army under Menou digs in at Alexandria ready for the siege of Alexandria
- 31 March (10 Germinal year IX) : Ottoman army arrives at El-Arich
- 19 April (29 Germinal year IX): British and Ottoman forces capture Fort Julien at Rosetta after a four-day bombardment, opening the Nile.
- 27 June (8 Messidor year IX) : General Belliard surrenders in Cairo
- 31 August (13 Fructidor year IX) : Siege of Alexandria ends in Menou's surrender
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