Siege of Cairo, 1801

A PLAN OF THE / INVESTMENT OF GRAND CAIRO / BY THE BRITISH FORCES COMMANDED BY / GEN.L LORD HUTCHINSON K.B. &c. / AND THE OTTOMAN TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE / GRAND VIZIER & THE CAPTAIN PACHA / 1801

A map of the siege of Cairo by the British, under the command of General Lord Hutchinson and the Ottoman troops, 21 September 1801. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). Oriented with east to top (cardinal points).

The successful British and Ottoman siege of Cairo marked the end of Napoleon's conquests in Egypt. The details in the redrawn map on p.189 of Piers Mackesy's British victory in Egypt, 1801: the end of Napoleon's conquest [April 2015] appear to be taken from this map. The positions of the besieging army on the west bank of the Nile are shown in detail.
John Hely-Hutchinson (1757-1832), later 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, who had commanded the First Division under General Sir Ralph Abercromby of Tullibody (1734-1801), succeeded that officer on his death at the Battle of Alexandria as General in command of the British forces in Egypt.

This map was published in Wilson's History of the British Expedition to Egypt, (1803) in which he gives, on pp.xxx-xxxi, the background to the mapping: … 'I have now to return my thanks to the officers who so kindly favoured me with the communications I required, and to express particular obligations to Captain Marley, of the staff corps, an officer whose zeal and abilities rendered very great service to Colonel Stuart in the Delta, with whose column he acted as quarter master general, for the maps of Egypt he furnished me with, and which so well exemplify his talents, those of Major Birch [footnote: 'Major Birch was senior officer, and under his immediate superintendence the country was reconnoitred, and the plans traced.'], and the officers of the military college, by whose untied labours the original work was perfected during the campaign, notwithstanding the severity of their other duties.'

For further reading, see:
J. Jupp, 'Hutchinson, John Hely-, second earl of Donoughmore (1757–1832)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
P. Mackesy, British victory in Egypt 1801: the end of Napoleon's conquest, London and New York, 2010.
R.T. Wilson, History of the British Expedition to Egypt; to which is subjoined, a Sketch of the Present State of that Country and its Means of Defence. Illustrated with Maps … 4th edition, London, 1803, vol.I.

Condition: no fold lines; small tear to bottom edge; two small tears to left edge; piece missing from bottom right corner; slight surface dirt; some discolouration to verso.