El Rahmaniya

El Rahmaniya, also spelled Rahmanieh, is a city and markaz in Beheira Governorate, Egypt. Its old name was Mahallet Abd al-Rahman. The French invasion arrived west of Alexandria on 2 July 1798 and marched into the city that day; Napoleon then marched on Cairo through Damanhur, occupying Rosetta on 6 July and reaching Rahmaniya, a village on the Nile. Meanwhile the Mamluks were preparing an army led by Murad Bey, which was defeated and forced to retreat. Murad Bey returned to Cairo and met the French and Mamluk armies again at the Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July 1798, where Napoleon Bonaparte defeated his army once more.