Original bronze St Jean d' Acre Medal issued for Naval actions in Syria 1840

Original bronze St Jean d' Acre Medal issued for Naval actions in Syria 1840 (image 1/2)
Original bronze St Jean d' Acre Medal issued for Naval actions in Syria 1840 (image 2/2)
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Offered for sale is an interesting St Jean d' Acre in bronze issued to Royal Naval ratings for actions at Syria in 1840. This medal also accompanied the Naval General Service Medal with Syria clasp. This medal has a nice chocolate patina and is a nice original example. Details of this medal below: In 1832 the city of Acre, in modern-day Palestine, was seized from Ottoman rule by the Egyptian general Ibrahim Pasha. Ibrahim had been leader of the Ottoman forces fighting Greek rebels in the Greek War of Independence which resulted in the Battle of Navarino, but by 1831 Ottoman distrust of his father, the Vizier Muhammad Ali, and his politics had led to Egypt being in open rebellion against the Turkish sultanate. As part of this Ibrahim was sent to invade Syria, and in 1832 he took the city by siege and went on to defeat two Ottoman armies. 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. On 4 November 1840 their combined Mediterranean squadrons, with assistance from the French, bombarded and retook Acre for the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Mejid I. On 4 November 1840 a combined British, French and Austrian squadron bombarded and retook the city for the Ottoman Empire. Some of the British forces involved in this campaign read more
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