Albanian resistance and Sudanese failures forced conscription on Mehmed Ali

Evidence

This chapter has attempted to uncover the factors that prompted Mehmed Ali to conscript the male population of Egypt and has shown that the Pasha did not originally intend to press them into military service but was forced to do so only after his Albanians troops resisted his efforts at imposing discipline and after he failed to raise troops from the Sudan in any efficient way. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 489

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of understanding Mehmed Ali’s military expansion — the conscription system was born from a failed Albanian-Sudanese recruitment strategy.

Related

• Conscription arose only after Albanian insubordination and failed Sudanese recruitment (similarity 0.96)
• Albanian resistance and Sudan failures forced Mehmed Ali to conscript Egyptians (similarity 0.89)
• Failed Albanian training and slave losses forced reliance on conscripted fellahin. (similarity 0.86)
• Mehmed Ali had exhausted alternatives before conscripting Egyptian peasants wholesale (similarity 0.85)
• Conscript soldiers resisted the Pasha’s project and undermined his army’s power (similarity 0.85)
• Universal conscription of Egyptian peasants was a reluctant last resort, not a plan. (similarity 0.85)
• Albanian troops resisted discipline because they regarded Mehmed Ali as first among equals (similarity 0.84)
• Mass peasant conscription was adopted only after other options failed (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali first sought Sudanese conscripts to avoid pulling fellahin from agriculture (similarity 0.82)
• Universal conscription of Egyptian peasants was adopted reluctantly after other options failed (similarity 0.82)
• Conscription failures forced Egyptian officials to track population numbers (similarity 0.82)
• Fear of removal drove Mehmed Ali to build a conscript army in 1820-21. (similarity 0.82)
• An army of reluctant conscripts still won spectacular victories (similarity 0.82)
• Egypt’s conscription needs drove Mehmed Ali to target Syria for manpower (similarity 0.81)
• Mehmed Ali ordered Egyptian fellahin conscription to spare Turkish soldiers Sudan duty (similarity 0.81)