Egypt’s new regular army first saw real combat in the 1824 Morea campaign.

Evidence

The story of Mehmed Ali’s involvement in the Morean war goes back to 1824 when an imperial order was dispatched to Egypt appointing Mehmed Ali to deal with the Greek uprising. Five months later the Pasha sent a force a force comprising 17,000 newly trained infantry troops and 700 cavalrymen assisted by four artillery batteries to the Morean peninsula in the south of Greece. These were four of the first six regiments that had been recently trained, and as far as the Pasha was concerned the Morean theater of operations provided a good opportunity to try them out, checking how loyal, disciplined and well trained they were. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 227