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Capitulation of Alexandria (1801)

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Under Article 16 of the capitulation "the Arabian manuscripts, the statues, and the other collections which have been made for the French Republic, shall be considered as public property, and subject to the disposal of the generals of the combined army." This led to the transfer to British possession
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offered to surrender and proposed terms, which were considered, partly accepted and in many details amended, by the British general
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frigates in the harbour of Alexandria. The British and their Turkish allies agreed a division of the spoils. The British received
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who left for France never to return, had been defeated by British and Ottoman forces, and had retreated to
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The Keith Papers: Selected from the papers of Admiral Viscount Keith
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The text of the Capitulation is printed in full in Robert Wilson's
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At the Capitulation, the British discovered the French warships
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1801 capitulation during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria
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Menou, Admiral Keith, Lt.-General Hely-Hutchinson, Lt.-Col.
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Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). "Corvettes".
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and other Egyptian antiquities collected by the French
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Rosetta Stone
British Museum
Alexandria
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Egypt–Syria campaign
French Revolutionary Wars
Shubra Khit
Pyramids
Nile
1st Cairo
1st El Arish
Jaffa
Acre
Mount Tabor
1st Aboukir
2nd El Arish
Heliopolis
2nd Aboukir
Mandora
Canope
Fort Julien
El Rahmaniya
Al Khankah
2nd Cairo
Alexandria
capitulation
French expedition to Egypt

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