Franco-Turkish War (1798–1801)

Franco-Turkish War (1798–1801)
Part of the War of the Second Coalition

Siege of Acre (1799)
Date1798–1801
Location
Ottoman Egypt, Ottoman Syria, Mediterranean Sea
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman allies:
 French Republic
Commanders and leaders
Selim III
Şehzade Mahmud
Yusuf Pasha
Mustafa Pasha
Jezzar Pasha		 Napoleon Bonaparte
Eugène de Beauharnais
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
Jean-Antoine Verdier
Joachim Murat
Strength
Egypt–Syria:
220,000
Ionian Islands:
6,200–8,000		 Egypt–Syria:
35,000–40,000
Ionian Islands:
3,700–4,000
Casualties and losses
Egypt–Syria:
65,000
Ionian Islands:
300–400		 Egypt–Syria:
38,500
Ionian Islands:
700–1,000

The Franco-Turkish War (1798–1801) was a conflict between Revolutionary France and the Ottoman Empire, forming a part of the wider French Revolutionary Wars. It began with the French invasion of Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte but lasted until 1802. Its other fronts included Palestine, Syria, Albania, the Ionian Islands, Sicily and mainland Italy. The Ottomans also allied themselves with the Russian Empire and Great Britain.

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