Siege of Acre

Name: Siege of Acre
Start: 1799
Location: Acre

1799 · Acre · Middle East · War

Jazzar Pasha's fortress halts Bonaparte in Syria

Marching from Egypt into Syria, Bonaparte besieged Acre for two months without success against Jazzar Pasha and Sidney Smith's British squadron. Plague and losses forced the French back to Egypt, and soon Bonaparte himself slipped away to France.

State: Ottoman Empire

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