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Battle of Mount Tabor

Battle of Mount Tabor was a battle fought on 16 April 1799 at Mount Tabor, in what is now Israel. It was part of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria, which ran from 1798 to 1801. The recorded result: French victory. Recorded strength: 4,000 against 35,000 (Western claim).

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La Bataille du mont Tabor, en Syrie, le 27 germinal an VI by Louis François Lejeune, Salon de 1804 and 1808.
La Bataille du mont Tabor, en Syrie, le 27 germinal an VI by Louis François Lejeune, Salon de 1804 and 1808.. Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Fought16 April 1799
WhereMount Tabor, Israel32.612N, 35.327E
OutcomeFrench victory
BelligerentsFranceagainstOttoman Empire
Casualties and losses2 killed; 60 woundedand6,000 killed or wounded; 500 captured (Western sources only)
Part ofFrench invasion of Egypt and Syria1798 to 1801

Where it sits in the French invasion of Egypt and Syria

Capture of Alexandria, 1798Battle of Shubra Khit, 1798Battle of the Nile, 1798Battle of El Salheya, 1798Battle of Salahieh, 1798Battle of El Lahun, 1798Siege of Acre, 1799Battle of Samanouth, 1799Battle of Aswan, 1799Siege of El Arish, 1799Siege of Jaffa, 1799Battle of Nazareth, 1799Battle of Mount Tabor, 1799First Battle of Abukir, 1799Battle of Damietta, 1799Siege of El Arish, 1799Battle of Heliopolis, 1800Second Battle of Abukir, 1801Battle of Alexandria, 1801Siege of El Rahmaniya, 1801Battle of Al Khankah, 180117981801Battle of Mount Tabor, 1799
21 placed engagements of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date16 April 1799
PlaceMount Tabor, Israel
32.612N, 35.327E
KindBattle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength4,00035,000 (Western claim)
Casualties and losses2 killed; 60 wounded6,000 killed or wounded; 500 captured (Western sources only)
Commanders
  • Abdullah Pasha al-Azm
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The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Mount Tabor
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 25 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Mount Tabor today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2024-09-26. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024.

The recorded site stands at about 122 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from -15 to 514 m, 528 m of relief, steep country and today it is 49% cropland, 20% built-up, 15% tree cover.

cropland: 49%built-up: 20%tree cover: 15%grassland: 10%shrubland: 4%cropland 49%built-up 20%tree cover 15%grassland 10%shrubland 4%
west to east, 10.0 km57 to 440 mnorth to south, 10.0 km2 to 250 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

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Combat data (CDB90)

Attacker: TURK ARMYDefender: FR ARMY
Strength35,0004,500
Casualties6,500 (18.6%)60 (1.3%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 1018
Outcomedefender won
Duration1 day
Front width15 km6.4 km
Attacker advanced0 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 110), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Battle of Mount Tabor is one of 2,009 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 152 in present-day Israel.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2420811, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Mount Tabor (1799), revision 1373988420, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.