Battle of Acre (1840)
Bellerophon leading the bombardment of the Syrian fortress of Acre. Thomas Baines
The Bombardment of Acre, 3 November 1840
The Battle of Acre (also known as the Fourth Battle of Acre) occurred on 3 November 1840.
The Oriental Crisis of 1840 was an episode in the Egyptian–Ottoman War in the eastern Mediterranean, triggered by the self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali Pasha's aims to establish a personal empire in the Ottoman province of Egypt.
Mehmet Ali had refused the conditions the sought to impose. On the 3 November Acre was shelled by a combined British, Austrian and Ottoman fleet under Admiral Sir Robert Stopford. The town was largely destroyed, the Egyptians withdrew and came to terms.[1]
Bombardment of St Jean D'Acre, by Admiral Charles Napier, 3 November 1840
Another scene from the battle
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Thomas Benfield Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 10. ISBN 0-246-11103-8.
External links[]
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