 France's political goals were to bring Mediterranean Africa beyond Suez under its sphere of influence.When Muhammad Ali won a victory over the Ottoman sultan in 1839, the Oriental Crisis of 1840 was born.The United Kingdom, Russia, Prussia, and Austria considered that the fall of the Ottoman Empire would entail unacceptable consequences, and signed the 1840 Convention of London, which would stabilize the Empire and demanded from France that it withdraw its support for Egypt's claims.