Battle of Acre (1840)
Battle of Acre (1840) | |||||||
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Part of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Egypt |
United Kingdom Ottoman Empire Austrian Empire | ||||||
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Unknown |
Robert Stopford Archduke Friedrich | ||||||
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the town is largely destroyed | light |
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 Quadrilateral Alliance 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 and the Egyptians withdrew after Archduke Friedrich personally led a small landing party of Allied troops to capture the Citadel. Muhammad Ali of Egypt then came to terms.[1][2]
Gallery
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HMS Powerful at the Battle of St Jean D'Acre
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Bombardment of St Jean D'Acre, by Admiral Charles Napier, 3 November 1840
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Another scene from the battle
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HMS Bellerophon leading the bombardment of the Syrian fortress of Acre. Thomas Baines
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The Bombardment of Acre, 3 November 1840
See also
References
- ^ Thomas Benfield Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 10. ISBN 0-246-11103-8.
- ^ "ADB:Friedrich (Erzherzog von Österreich)". ADB:Friedrich (Erzherzog von Österreich). Biographisches Lexikon.
- External links
- Media related to Bombardment of Akko, 1840 at Wikimedia Commons