Battle of Acre (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 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, the Egyptians withdrew and came to terms.[1]

  • 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
  • Bellerophon leading the bombardment of the Syrian fortress of Acre. Thomas Baines
  • The Bombardment of Acre, 3 November 1840

See also

References
  1. Thomas Benfield Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 10. ISBN 0-246-11103-8.


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