Oriental Crisis of 1840

Oriental Crisis of 1840
Part of Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841)
Date Summer-November 1840 Location Nile Delta, Beirut, Acre Result Convention of London enforced by allied powers while Muhammad Ali Pasha secures his position in Egypt
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Austrian Empire  Prussia  Russian Empire  Ottoman Empire	Province of Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Archduke Friedrich Admiral Stopford John Ommanney Henry Codrington Arthur Fanshawe	Muhammad Ali Ibrahim Pasha

Archduke Friedrich Admiral Stopford

Muhammad Ali

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.

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