Battle of Acre (1840)

The Battle of Acre occurred on 3 November 1840. Mehmet Ali had refused the conditions the Quadrilateral Alliance sought to impose. On the 3 November Acre was shelled by a combined British and Ottoman fleet under Admiral Sir Robert Stopford. The town was largely destroyed, the Egyptians withdrew and came to terms.[1]

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    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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