Nov 16, 2009
Article abstract: At issue: Supremacy in Syria. Result: Great power intervention.
Although technically an Ottoman vassal, Egypt’s ruler Muhammad ʿAlī Pasha enjoyed de facto independence in 1831, when he demanded Syria as a reward for sending troops to suppress the Greek insurrection. Ottoman intransigence led to war.
Muhammad ʿAlī’s son Ibrāhīm Pasha took a well-trained western-style army into Palestine. Like Napoleon, his target was Acre. Despite a powerful defense, Egyptian troops stormed the city (May 27,...
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