2-494-526 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'St John d'Acre, Palestine, 1825. Showing the situation of the 'Tigre' and 'Theseus' during the siege, and the place where the breach was effected by Buonaparte's troops. Napoleon made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the port of Acre in 1799 but was repulsed by the city's Ottoman Turkish defenders aided by a British Royal Navy flotilla.