Egyptian cloth factories supplied uniforms, navy sails, and army tents.

Evidence

90 S/1/47/7/297 on 26 R 1241/9 December 1825. The cloth produced was not only for the manufacture of uniforms; it was also intended to make sails for the navy’s ships (see S/1/48/2/50 on 11 Za 1240/28 June 1825 and S/1/48/2/107 on 9 M 1241/24 August 1825) as well as tents for the army (see S/1/47/7/436 on 9 Ş 1241/19 March 1826). — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1049

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is integrated state industrialization for war — echoes of how other modernizing states built vertical industries around military needs.