Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to establish an empire in the East was crushed in 1799 at the Siege of Acre by Ahmed Jazzar Pasha. On 20 May 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte lifted the siege of the city of Acre on the Mediterranean coast, in present-day Israel. The two-month siege that began in mid-March had turned into an insurmountable obstacle in Napoleon’s march through the Holy Land. As many as eight repeated attempts ...