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Jacques-François Menou

1750–1810 · 18th century · Also known as Abdallah Menou

Jacques-François de Menou was a French general and nobleman who succeeded Jean-Baptiste Kléber as commander of the French army in Egypt in 1800. He converted to Islam, taking the name Abdallah, and married an Egyptian woman. Defeated by a British army near Alexandria in March 1801, he surrendered Alexandria that September, ending the French occupation, and under the terms the Rosetta Stone passed to Britain.

Jacques-François Menou
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French occupation of Egypt

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