Consequences
Sidney Smith, admiral of the British fleet, blamed the defeat on the Ottoman chiefs as they did not follow his advice, especially to seize the town of Rosetta in order to isolate Alexandria. Furthermore, the Ottomans did not engage all their troops from the objective for the capture of Alexandria.
Abukir gave the French a few months respite. Desaix, continued through Upper Egypt in search of Murad Bey.
On August 23, leaving the command to Kleber, Bonaparte embarked on the frigate Muiron, with Berthier, Murat, Lannes and others, because, from reading the British newspapers, he learned the recent defeats of the Management. On this occasion, he earned the nickname "General Good Catch".
In the medium term, a French presence in Egypt was impossible to maintain. Kleber did restore French rule over the country thanks to his victory at Heliopolis, March 18, 1800. But less than a month later he was murdered in his garden in Cairo by a student of theology. Kleber's successor, Menou, lacking the skills of a war leader, was defeated at Canopus and surrendered on September 2. Under the convention, the British army came back in France.
Egypt remained in French memory as an incredible adventure, and two or three hundred stragglers or deserters became "French Mamluks." Thus, Chateaubriand could meet Gascons or Picards, renowned for their courage and whose beys and pashas quarreled services.
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