Storming and Capture of Acre
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The Bombardment of Acre or Storming and Capture 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 t
HMS Bellerophon leading the bombardment of the Syrian fortress of Acre. Thomas Baines
HMS Powerful at the Battle of St Jean d'Acre
Bombardment of St Jean d'Acre, by Admiral Charles Napier, 3 November 1840
Another scene from the battle
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule
Storming and Capture of Acre
…Oriental Crisis of 1840 was an episode in the Egyptian–Ottoman War in the eastern Mediterranean, triggered by the rebellious Wali of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali Pasha's aims to establish a personal empire in the Egypt Eyalet. Mehmet Ali had refused the conditions the Quadrilateral Alliance sought to impose. On 3…
Portrait by Auguste Couder, 1840
Muhammad Ali's house in Kavala, now in northeastern Greece.
Massacre of the Mamelukes by Horace Vernet, 1819. The painting depicts the 1811 massacre of Mamelukes at the Citadel of Cairo in 1811
Muhammad Ali by Jean-François Portaels, 1847