<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War of the Second Coalition">War of the Second Coalition</a>: At the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Abukir_(1801)" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Abukir (1801)">Battle of Abukir</a>, a British force under Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abercromby" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ralph Abercromby">Ralph Abercromby</a> lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_campaign_in_Egypt_and_Syria" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French campaign in Egypt and Syria">French campaign in Egypt and Syria</a>.<sup about="#mwt69" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-11" id="mwcA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcQ">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt66" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRoss2010">Ross, Steven T. (7 June 2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yHFQUyoPuR8C&amp;pg=PA12" id="mwBrM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBrQ">The A to Z of the Wars of the French Revolution</i></a>. Scarecrow Press. p.<span id="mwBrU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>12. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBrY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBrc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-4616-7238-8" id="mwBrg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4616-7238-8"><bdi id="mwBrk">978-1-4616-7238-8</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220309141944/https://books.google.com/books?id=yHFQUyoPuR8C&amp;pg=PA12" id="mwBro" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 9 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBrs">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBrw">25 December</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt66" class="Z3988" id="mwBr0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+A+to+Z+of+the+Wars+of+the+French+Revolution&amp;rft.pages=12&amp;rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&amp;rft.date=2010-06-07&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4616-7238-8&amp;rft.aulast=Ross&amp;rft.aufirst=Steven+T.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyHFQUyoPuR8C%26pg%3DPA12&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+8"></span></span>