Battle of Shubra Khit

Battle of Shubra Khit
	Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria of the French Revolutionary Wars
	; Carle Vernet - Retraite de Mameluck
Date	13 July 1798
Location	Shubra Khit, Egypt, Ottoman Empire31°1′39″N 30°42′46″E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
France	Ottoman Empire; Eyalet of Egypt;
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte; Jean-Baptiste Perrée (flotilla)	Murad Bey; Nicola (Nile flotilla)
Strength
23,000 ; 3 gunboats ; 1 xebec ; 1 galley; 25 total armed vessels	16,000 including 6000 Mamelukes; Nine guns; Mamluk cavalry; Drafted Fellahins; ; Flotilla:; 7 gunboats Battery of 9 pounder cannons
Casualties and losses
25	400

The Battle of Shubra Khit, also known as the Battle of Chobrakit, and known among the French as Combat de Chébreïss was among the first major engagement of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt that took place on 13 July, 1798. On their march to Cairo, the French army encountered an Ottoman army consisting of Mamluk cavalry and drafted Fellahins under Murad Bey. Napoleon lined his forces up into infantry squares, a tactic which helped repel the Mamluk cavalry, largely due to their inability to penetrate them without suffering severe casualties. A naval battle also occurred, with an Ottoman flotilla being repelled by a French flotilla.

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