Tag: The Cairo Revolt

Bonaparte left Alexandria on 6 July. General Dugua marched on Rosetta, with orders to seize and hold the entrance to the port housing the French fleet, which had to follow the route to Cairo down the river’s left bank and rejoin the army at Rahmanié. On 8 July, Bonaparte arrived at Demenhour, where he found the…

The Cairo Revolt is an episode of the Egyptian campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte . It pits the French against the Egyptians. The revolt takes place on October 21, 1798. This city was taken by the French on 5 Thermidor year VI , and Bonaparte established the seat of the republican government there during the…