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The siege of Jaffa was a military engagement between the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Ottoman forces under Ahmed al-Jazzar. On March 3, 1799, the French laid siege to the city of Jaffa, which was under Ottoman control. It was fought from March 3-7, 1799. On March 7, French forces managed to capture the city.
Napoleon took the initiative and marched north in February 1799, taking Gaza City, El Arish, and Jaffa, but was then held up at Acre for over two months. The defence was led by Djezzar Pasha , the Ottoman governor, assisted by Antoine de Phélippeaux , an engineer and master of artillery who had studied with Bonaparte at the École militaire ...
Napoleon visiting the plague victims of Jaffa, by Antoine-Jean Gros. Before leaving Jaffa, Bonaparte set up a divan for the city along with a large hospital on the site of the Carmelite monastery at Mount Carmel to treat those of his soldiers who had caught the plague, whose symptoms had been seen among them since the start of the siege. A ...
These walls were breached by Napoleon in 1799. [4] Following the appointment of Muhammad Abu Nabbut as the Turkish governor of Jaffa by Sultan Sulayman Pasha, a western wall was constructed along the sea, encircling the city. Simultaneously, an eastern wall was also erected, featuring a singular gate known as the "Jerusalem Gate."
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In 1799, Napoleon also sacked the town in the Siege of Jaffa, ... Jaffa in 1880, SWP Map 13: IAA, Wikimedia commons Coordinates: East longitude, 34.45; ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
Location of battle, as given on map by Pierre Jacotin, 1826. The Battle of Mount Tabor was fought on 16 April 1799, between French forces commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte and General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, against an Ottoman Army under Abdullah Pasha al-Azm, ruler of Damascus.