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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 War of the Second Coalition, which ran from 1798 to 1802. 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 ofWar of the Second CoalitionFrench invasion of Egypt and Syria

Where it sits in the War of the Second Coalition

Mediterranean campaign of 1798, 1798French invasion of Malta, 1798French invasion of Egypt and Syria, 1798Capture of Alexandria, 1798Battle of Shubra Khit, 1798Action of 15 July 1798, 1798Battle of the Nile, 1798Battle of El Salheya, 1798Battle of Salahieh, 1798Battle of Salahieh, 1798Battle of St. George's Caye, 1798Battle of El Lahun, 1798Siege of Butrint, 1798Revolt of Cairo, 1798Battle of Nicopolis, 1798Siege of Corfu, 1798Capture of Minorca, 1798Siege of Acre, 1799Battle of Trebbia, 1799Siege of Ancona, 1799Battle of Samanouth, 1799Battle of Aswan, 1799Siege of El Arish, 1799Siege of Jaffa, 1799Battle of Ostrach, 1799Battle of Feldkirch, 1799Battle of Stockach, 1799Siege of Mantua, 1799Battle of Magnano, 1799Battle of Nazareth, 1799Battle of Mount Tabor, 1799Battle of Cassano, 1799Battle of Frauenfeld, 1799Battle of Winterthur, 1799First Battle of Zurich, 1799Battle of Modena, 1799Siege of Alessandria, 1799First Battle of Abukir, 1799Battle of Oberwald, 1799Battle of Schwyz, 1799Battle of Novi, 1799Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, 1799Battle of Callantsoog, 1799Battle of Krabbendam, 1799Battle of Mannheim, 1799Second Battle of Zurich, 1799Limmat crossing near Dietikon (1799), 1799Battle of Gotthard Pass, 1799Battle of Muottental, 1799Battle of Alkmaar, 1799Battle of Castricum, 1799Battle of Damietta, 1799Battle of Genola, 1799Battle of Obrigheim, 1799Battle of Wiesloch, 1799Siege of El Arish, 1799Second Italian Campaign, 1800Battle of Walserfeld, 1800Battle of Heliopolis, 1800Battle of Sassello, 1800Siege of Genoa, 1800Rhine crossing near Rheinklingen (1800), 1800Battle of Stockach, 1800Battle of Engen, 1800Battle of Messkirch, 1800Battle of Erbach, 1800Battle of Montebello, 1800Battle of Höchstädt, 1800Battle of Neuburg, 1800Invasion of Curaçao, 1800Battle of Hohenlinden, 1800Battle of Pozzolo, 1800Second Battle of Abukir, 1801Battle of Alexandria, 1801Battle of Copenhagen, 1801Siege of El Rahmaniya, 1801Battle of Al Khankah, 1801Algeciras Campaign, 1801First Battle of Algeciras, 1801Second Battle of Algeciras, 1801Battle of Suriname, 180417981804Battle of Mount Tabor, 1799
81 placed engagements of the War of the Second Coalition 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
Battle of Mount TaborBattle of Mount TaborBattle of Al-FuleBattle of Ain JalutBattle of NazarethBattle of Mount TaborSiege of Mount TaborBattle of Ain JalutBattle of NazarethTel AvivDamascusAmmanJerusalemGaza CityNablusAl QunaytirahAz Zarqa100 km32.612N, 35.327E
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 2,126 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 179 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.