Shubrakhit

Shubrakhit (also transliterated Shubra Khit) is a Beheira Governorate town best known as the site of the Battle of Shubra Khit on 13 July 1798, the second major engagement of Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt. Around 20,000–23,000 French troops, formed into infantry squares to repel Mamluk cavalry charges, faced roughly 4,000 Mamluk horsemen and 10,000 peasant militia under Murad Bey; a parallel naval clash on the Nile saw a French flotilla drive off an Ottoman one. The Mamluk-Egyptian forces withdrew toward Cairo after heavy losses, in an engagement often cited as an early demonstration of Napoleon's square tactics against irregular cavalry. Beyond this military history, Shubrakhit is a Nile Delta agricultural town, with cotton, rice, maize, and vegetables grown in the fields surrounding it.

By Plane

Via Cairo International Airport (CAI) with onward road or rail travel.

By Car / Road

Roads connect Shubrakhit to Damanhur and the surrounding Delta towns along the Rosetta branch of the Nile.

Microbuses and tuk-tuks are the main local transport.

The Nile riverside where the 1798 Battle of Shubra Khit was fought is the town's chief point of historical interest, though no dedicated battlefield museum or monument is documented.

Egyptian Delta staples — koshari, fuul, falafel, and grilled meats — are the general fare across Beheira towns.

Egyptian tea and sugar-cane juice, common across Delta towns.

Cairo is the main onward destination.