Conscripted soldiers were initially permitted to keep families at camp
Evidence
So long as the soldiers were in Egypt their wives and children were allowed to follow them from camp to camp and to build shanty-towns close to the training camp, living as best as they could by sharing the meager rations of the soldiers. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 657
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Mehmed Ali’s army initially allowed families to follow soldiers to camp (similarity 0.89)
- Military recruits’ families briefly followed them as camp shanty-towns before being excluded (similarity 0.86)
- Twenty-two thousand camp followers lived on army camps’ outskirts before being barred (similarity 0.82)
- Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army. (similarity 0.80)
- Attempts to prevent soldiers’ venereal disease failed because wives were permitted in camps (similarity 0.79)
- Conscription stripped households of their primary breadwinners across Egypt. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Conscripts’ disaffection forced Mehmed Ali to let families accompany troops
#expands(0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1160 - Soldiers petitioned Mehmed Ali to have their families join them
#expands(0.55) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1272