Battle of Acre (1840)

Battle of Acre (1840)
Part of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841)
Date 3 November 1840 Location Acre, Ottoman Empire Result Anglo–Austrian–Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire United Kingdom  Austrian Empire	Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Robert Stopford Archduke Friedrich	Ibrahim Pasha
Strength
4,700 3,000 Ottomans 1,500 Brits 200 Austrians[1] 21 ships, 956 cannons[1]	5,000[1] 145 guns[1]
Casualties and losses
100 killed and wounded[1]	3,200 (2,000 killed and wounded, 1,200 prisoners)[1]

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 rebellious Walie 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 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.^[2][3]

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

• Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Acre

References

1. Bodart 1908, p. 501.
2. Thomas Benfield Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 10. ISBN 0-246-11103-8.
3. "ADB:Friedrich (Erzherzog von Österreich)". ADB:Friedrich (Erzherzog von Österreich). Biographisches Lexikon.

Bibliography

Bodart, Gaston (1908). Militär-historisches Kriegs–Lexikon (1618–1905) [Military-Historical War Lexicon (1618–1905)] (in German). Vienna: C. W. Stern.

• External links
• Media related to Bombardment of Akko, 1840 at Wikimedia Commons