It is at this time that Lord…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

It is at this time that Lord Palmerston, the British minister of foreign affairs, establishes the British policy, which lasts until the outbreak of the First World War, of preserving the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.

Britain prefers a weakened but intact Ottoman Empire that will grant it the strategic and commercial avantages it needs to maintain its influence in the region.

Thus, Muhammad Ali's invasion of Syria in 1831 and his attempt to break away from the Ottoman Empire jeopardizes British policy and its military and commercial interests in the Middle East and India.

The Egyptian invasion of Syria has been provoked ostensibly by the sultan's refusal to give Syria and Morea (Peloponnesus) to Muhammad Ali in return for his assistance in opposing the Greek war for independence in the late 1820s.

This had resulted in Turkey and Egypt being forced out of the eastern Mediterranean by the destruction of their combined naval strength at Navarino on the southern coast of Greece.

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Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt View →

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston View → Muhammad Ali of Egypt View →

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Greek War of Independence View → Turco-Egyptian War, First View → Egyptian–Ottoman War, Second View →

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