Failed Albanian training and slave losses forced reliance on conscripted fellahin.
Evidence
Second, it shows that in spite of years of training, of being subjected to a strict system of surveillance and control and in spite of continuous drills and exercises, the sergeant-major in question did not show signs that all this had had any significant effect on the way he was supposed to think and act – i.e. as a soldier and not as a fellah/civilian. Having come across a fellow villager, it was natural for him to extend him an invitation to stay with him on the camp and he could not see why his commanding officers were so harsh and inhospitable to his visitor. When his friend was arrested he could not see why he was being reprimanded and punished. His body might seem to have been closely controlled, but his heart and mind appeared to still belong to a different world, that of civilian life back in the nostalgically remote lands of Egypt. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1110 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Albanian resistance and Sudan failures forced Mehmed Ali to conscript Egyptians (similarity 0.87)
- Conscription arose only after Albanian insubordination and failed Sudanese recruitment (similarity 0.86)
- Albanian troops resisted discipline because they regarded Mehmed Ali as first among equals (similarity 0.86)
- Albanian resistance and Sudanese failures forced conscription on Mehmed Ali (similarity 0.86)
- Desertion and rebellion fundamentally undermined the performance of Ali’s army (similarity 0.84)
- Conscription aimed to drastically reshape the peasant soldier’s body and daily habits (similarity 0.84)
- Years of training failed to transform peasant soldiers’ civilian loyalties. (similarity 0.84)
- Conscript soldiers resisted the Pasha’s project and undermined his army’s power (similarity 0.84)
- Mehmed Ali had exhausted alternatives before conscripting Egyptian peasants wholesale (similarity 0.83)
- Bedouins and sapper regiments proved unreliable as camp guards due to desertion (similarity 0.82)
- Syria’s prosperity and shared Arabic language drew Mehmed Ali’s soldiers out of their camps. (similarity 0.81)
- Brutal force failed to deter desertion, driving the shift to psychological control (similarity 0.81)
- Fellahin resistance to Mehmed Ali’s conscription was pervasive. (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian soldiers obeyed orders because desertion and retreat both meant court martial (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Albanian resistance and Sudan failures forced Mehmed Ali to conscript Egyptians
#corroborates(0.85) - Conscript soldiers resisted the Pasha’s project and undermined his army’s power
#expands(0.70) - Years of training failed to transform peasant soldiers’ civilian loyalties.
#exemplifies(0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1110 - The Sudan campaign aimed to conscript Sudanese soldiers and purge Albanian troops
#complicates(0.50)