Notes on Akka and its Defences under Ibrahim Pasha.

RUSTUM (Asad J.).

Published by 1926]., 1926

About this Item

First and only edition. English and Arabic text. One plate, several diagrams to the text. Near very good in the original grey paper wraps, slightly browned at the extremities and chipping, some loss to spine which is very fragile. 70pp. [Beirut, An interesting paper giving the early history of the building of the fortifications at Acre, and their condition at the time of the fall of the city to Ibrahim Pasha. It also includes an account of the investment and state of the works "as Ibrahim Pasha left them". Appendices print for the first time Ibrahim's account of the building activities of Suleiman Pasha, an eyewitness account of the siege of 1831 together with the official bulletins of Ibrahim's campaign. The city's fortifications and citadel withstood Napoleon's siege, and although the city surrendered to Ibrahim Pasha the citadel was never forced until 1948, when as a British prison, it was taken by the Israeli guerilla group Irgun Zvai Leumi.  .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes on Akka and its Defences under Ibrahim Pasha.
• Publisher: 1926].
• Publication Date: 1926
• Binding: Soft cover