TURKEY: Abdul Mejid, 1839-1861, AE medal, AH1256, St. Jean d'Acre Medal issued during the Ottoman-Egyptian War, Sultan's toughra above wreath / citadel of Acre, the Turkish flag flying above, date AH1256 below, pierced for suspension, with original ribbon, couple minor rim bumps as usual for type, VF to EF. In 1832 the city of Acre (Akka) was seized from Ottoman rule by the Egyptian general Ibrahim Pasha. In 1831, his father's quarrel with the Porte having become flagrant, Ibrahim was sent to conquer Syria. He took Acre after a severe siege on May 27, 1832, then occupied Damascus, defeated an Ottoman army at Homs on July 8 defeated another Ottoman army at Beilan on July 29, invaded Asia Minor, and finally routed the grand vizier Res,id Mehmet Pasha at Konya on December 21. He held Syria for six years before the Turkish Porte could face him again, and their immediate defeat led to intervention on the part of the Austrian Empire and Great Britain. The Royal Navy and the Austrian Navy first blockaded the Nile delta coastline, they then 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. The British forces involved in this campaign were awarded this medal by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Mejid in 1843.
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