page_title: Oriental Crisis of 1840
section_title: Military campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Oriental Crisis of 1840 / Military campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS Phoenix at the Bombardment of Acre, also an Austrian warship in the left background and an Ottoman warship in the right background עברית: האוניה פיניקס במהלך ההפגזה על העיר עכו 1840
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: In September 1840, the European powers eventually moved from diplomatic means to military action. When French support for Muhammad Ali failed to materialize, British and Austrian naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean moved against Syria and Alexandria.
  Alexandria was the port where the defecting Ottoman fleet had withdrawn. After the Royal Navy and the Austrian Navy first blockaded the Nile delta coastline, they moved east to shell Sidon and Beirut on 11 September 1840. British and Austrian forces then attacked Acre. Following the bombardment of the city and the port on 3 November 1840 a small landing party of Austrian, British and Ottoman troops (which were led personally by the Austrian fleet commander, Archduke Friedrich) took the citadel after Muhammad Ali's Egyptian garrison in Acre had fled.
caption: HMS Phoenix (1832) in the bombardment of Acre, 1840
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