The battle aboukir

 The battle of aboukir between napoleon and the Turks and Arabs the Turk had there Mameluke's which where the best cavalry in the world. The Arabs also on horse waited for the Mameluke's to smash the french squares while the Mameluke's charged the french opened fire with there muskets and cannon loaded with grapeshot. When they fired they probably took out 50 or more men just the cannon themselves .But the muskets destroyed vast quantity's more the if the french had been broken the Mameluke's would have slaughtered them. The Arabs seeing that the Mameluke where done they rode off while what was left the Mameluke's rode off. The french successfully used this technique until England defeated them with the help of Syria and the Turks.