Foreign Ottomans entering service made up the officers’ third component

Evidence

In addition to the students whom the Pasha had sent to Europe in the late twenties and who came back during the mid-thirties to be appointed to senior positions in the army and the bureaucracy, this group also included men from all corners of the Ottoman world, Albanians, Circassians, Georgians, Moreans, Anatolians and Istanbullites. These men came to Egypt with their families seeking employment and entered the Pasha’s service both in his civil bureaucracy and his army and navy, gradually becoming members of the new elite centered around Mehmed Ali and his family. But again, as enthusiastic as they might have been in their new posts they were often at odds with their fellow officers with whom they had nothing in common except the desire and willingness to appease the Pasha and members of his family. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 927

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The officer corps served the Pasha’s dynasty rather than any Egyptian nation (similarity 0.83)
• Ottoman officers readily defected to serve in the Egyptian army (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali’s officers were foreign newcomers with no roots in Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian soldiers served under Turkish officers in the reformed army (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian soldiers served under Turkish officers in the reformed army #expands (0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1043
• Ottoman officers readily defected to serve in the Egyptian army #expands (0.55) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1437