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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Battle of Konya

Friday Dec 21, 1832
Konya, Ottoman Empire

After the fall of Acre, the Egyptian army marched north into Anatolia. At the Battle of Konya (21 December 1832), Ibrahim Pasha soundly defeated the Ottoman army led by the sadr azam Grand Vizier Reshid Pasha. There were now no military obstacles between Ibrahim's forces and Constantinople itself.


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