RUSTUM (Asad J.).
Notes on Akka and its Defences under Ibrahim Pasha.
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.
