Julien Pierre Anne Lalande (1787 in Le Mans, France – 1844 in Paris) was a

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officer and politician. He became one of the main actors in the

Oriental Crisis of 1840 The Oriental Crisis of 1840 was an episode in the Egyptian–Ottoman War in the eastern Mediterranean, triggered by the self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali Pasha's aims to establish a personal empire in the Ottoman province o ...

when the French Levant Squadron did not stop the Ottoman

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(Grand Admiral) Ahmed Fawzi Pasha who defected with the whole Ottoman Fleet to the Sultan´s enemy

Muhammad Ali of Egypt Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was ...

("Lalande affair"). Britain and Russia supported the Ottoman Sultan and formed an alliance with Austria and Prussia against Egypt ( Convention of London). France was politically isolated and, because it was threatened by a coalition of all its former enemies, France chose not to intervene when British and Austrian naval and infantry forces attacked Egyptian-held Beirut and Acre. Rear Admiral Lalande, however, offered his Prime minister Adolphe Thiers and his king

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a plan to stop the Russian Black Sea fleet by occupying a few Dardanelles forts, to attack and capture or destroy the

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Levant Squadron and to use the Egypt-Ottoman fleet to transport French troops for an invasion in Ireland. Lalande was called back to Toulon and removed from his command. After Thiers was replaced by François Guizot Lalande became a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1840 to 1842 and supported Guizot´s policy. File:Admiral Sir Robert Stopford.jpg, British Admiral Stopford was targeted as main enemy by Lalande File:Roussin, Albin.jpg, French Marine minister Roussin opposed Lalande´s plans File:Edmond Jurien de La Gravière.jpg, Lieutenant Jurien de La Gravière (later Admiral) was Lalande´s adjudant File:PrinceDeJoinville.jpg, French

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, son of king Louis Phillipe, was Lalande´s ally

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- Base de données historique des anciens députés:
Julien Pierre Anne LALANDE
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