Camp sentries themselves violated regulations and robbed local merchants

Evidence

Ironically, it was invariably these very same sentries whom the authorities had problems controlling and it was the guards themselves who often violated the law. The guards controlling the camp in Tyre, for example, forced the local merchants to give them half their loads or else they would not allow them in. After the fall of Acre it was the guards who, more than the soldiers, attacked the local population142 and robbed the merchants. When their attacks on the local merchants could not be stopped, the merchants refused to supply the castle with food altogether. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1176

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the emerging picture of the Egyptian army’s weak discipline on the ground in Syria, against the reader’s interest in army performance.