The Battle of Abukir (1801), second battle of the Egyptian campaign fought in March 1801. In this battle, a British army of 5,000 under General Ralph Abercromby landed to dislodge a French army of 2,000 under General Louis Friant. They did so, but not before 1,100 British troops were lost.
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Abukir (sometimes spelled Aboukir) was a village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, 23 kilometers (14½ miles) northeast of Alexandria by rail, containing a castle used as a state prison by Mehemet Ali.
Stretching eastward as far as the Rosetta mouth of the Nile is the spacious Bay of Abukir, where on August 1, 1798, Horatio Nelson fought the Battle of the Nile, often referred to as the Battle of Abukir Bay.
Near Abukir, on March 8, 1801, the British army commanded by Sir R. Abercromby landed from its transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach.
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