Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . Turkey in the effort toobtain complete independence. He conquered Syria anda great part of Asia Minor, and would have captured Con-stantinople if the great powers had not interfered to pre-vent the possible destruction of the Ottoman power inEurope. A similar war took place in 1839, m whichMohammed Ali Pasha fought to secure hereditary , Austria, Russia, and Prussia interfered for the pro-tection of Turkey and expelled the Egyptians from Syria ;Mohammed Ali was made hereditary viceroy of Egypt
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . Turkey in the effort toobtain complete independence. He conquered Syria anda great part of Asia Minor, and would have captured Con-stantinople if the great powers had not interfered to pre-vent the possible destruction of the Ottoman power inEurope. A similar war took place in 1839, m whichMohammed Ali Pasha fought to secure hereditary , Austria, Russia, and Prussia interfered for the pro-tection of Turkey and expelled the Egyptians from Syria ;Mohammed Ali was made hereditary viceroy of Egypt,but his territory was reduced through the loss of nearlyall that he had gained in the first war against Turkey. 9° DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. During this period South America was the scene of afew revolutionary movements, resulting in skirmishes andsmall battles that had no material consequences to anybut the parties immediately concerned. No changes ofthe maps occurred by reason of these disturbances, andthey are not even worthy of mention by name in ourchronicle of imp Sgss -i,_,: ?^w«oJa^g Vr r ftS >31 f IV., , v i ~C £|^3K f7»/*l ii 111 i^-- 1&3 Ills ^P j>. CHAPTER VII. CAPTURE OF THE CITY OF MEXICO—1847. DURING three decades from the close of the war withGreat Britain in 1812-15 the United States of Americaremained at peace with the rest of the world. In theearly part of the third decade there was imminent dangerof another conflict with Great Britain, growing out ofa dispute about the boundary between Maine and NewBrunswick ; an appeal to arms was averted mainly throughthe efforts of General Winfield Scott, and the quarrel waseffectually ended by the Ashburton treaty of 1842. While this dispute with the mother country was inprogress, another and more serious quarrel, so far as re-sults were concerned, arose concerning our southwesternboundary. The present State of Texas was formerly aprovince of Mexico, having been ceded to Spain in 1819,before
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