Siege of Al-Karak (1834)
| 1834 Siege of Al-Karak | |||||
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| Part of Peasants' Revolt of 1834 (Palestine) | |||||
Kerak Castle | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Egypt Eyalet | Al-Karak inhabitants | ||||
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Ibrahim Pasha Rashad Bey | Muhammad Majali | ||||
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Siege of Al-Karak was a 17-day siege imposed by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt on the Transjordanian town of Al-Karak in 1834. The Pasha laid the siege on the town in pursuit of Qasim al-Ahmad, the leader of the Peasants' revolt in Palestine, who had fled from Nablus to take shelter in Al-Karak.
Egyptian troops looted the town and the countryside for five days, while Karak's famous fortifications were shelled with gunpowder and the town was reduced to ruins. The Karakis took vengeance upon the Pasha and his Egyptian army when Ibrahim Pasha was driven out of Syria, six years after the siege.