Egyptian army entries into conquered cities drew crowds of onlookers.
Evidence
26 For the entry of the army to Jaffa see Sham 1/27, events of 15 C 1247/21 November 1831; for the entry to Adana, see Sham 11/24 and Sham 11/25, both on 3 R 1248/30 August 1832. The last document describes in detail the effect that this spectacle had on the inhabitants, some of whom had climbed on the roof tops to watch the army. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 986
Categorization
- CANDY: Residents climbed rooftops to watch the invading army — a vivid civilian-eye snapshot of the 1831-32 Syrian campaign.
- XREF: connects to: Egyptian military recruit families initially followed soldiers to camp in large numbers; Pre-industrial elites moved through crowds shielded by armed guards. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 168; Egyptian elite nationalism constructed the nation as a disciplined orderly crowd — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 384
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egyptian military recruit families initially followed soldiers to camp in large numbers; Pre-industrial elites moved through crowds shielded by armed guards. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 168; Egyptian elite nationalism constructed the nation as a disciplined orderly crowd — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 384
Broader Connections
- Egyptian elite nationalism constructed the nation as a disciplined orderly crowd
#complicates(0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 384