Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir)

Date and place

• July 25th, 1799 at Abukir peninsula, on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, twenty-three kilometers northwest of Alexandria.

Involved forces

• French army (11,000 men) under General Napoleon Bonaparte. 
• Turkish army (18,000 men) under Seid Mustafa Pasha. 

Casualties and losses

• French army: 100 to 150 killed, 500 to 700 injured. 
• Turkish armyn: 2,000 killed or wounded, ten thousand drowned, 3,000 prisoners.