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The Battle of Shubra Khit took place on the 13th of July 1798. It was the second major engagement of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria, occurring roughly two weeks after Napoleon's forces landed near Alexandria on the 1st of July 1798.
Murad Bey commanded the Mameluke forces at Shubra Khit. He led an army that grew to approximately twenty thousand men, including three thousand Mameluke cavalry, their squires, local chieftains, and an infantry contingent. The naval portion of the Mameluke force was directed by Nicola, a Greek Christian serving as Murad Bey's naval advisor.
Napoleon arranged his infantry into large divisional oblong formations, six ranks deep rather than the standard three, to defend against Mameluke cavalry. Each formation was three hundred yards wide and fifty yards on the sides, with artillery at each corner covering one-hundred-and-eighty degree firing arcs. The tactic successfully repelled repeated Mameluke charges using grapeshot and massed musket volleys.
The French flotilla under Jean-Baptiste Perrée overshot the land battle and was ambushed by a Mameluke flotilla of seven gunboats commanded by Nicola, supported by concealed nine-pounder shore batteries. Two French gunboats and a galley were captured and their crews massacred. The battle ended when a French ship struck the magazine of the Mameluke flagship, causing it to explode and sink. The engagement lasted from roughly 8:30 or 9 PM to around noon, with over fifteen hundred cannon shots fired and twenty French killed.
Mameluke losses in the land battle included three hundred elite cavalry and nine abandoned cannon. Napoleon later wrote that true French losses across both the land and naval engagements were a few hundred, though official reports recorded fewer. Perrée's naval report noted twenty wounded and several killed, but historians estimate actual losses were considerably higher.
The battle was largely inconclusive; some historians described it as a protracted skirmish. Napoleon could not pursue the retreating Mamelukes because he had only three hundred cavalry. The engagement's primary value was intelligence: the French gained detailed knowledge of Mameluke tactics and fighting style that Napoleon applied at the far larger battle near the Pyramid of Giza, which followed the French army's continued march to Cairo.