Husrev Pasha trained Sudanese and mamluk troops on the French model before Mehmed Ali

Evidence

Immediately after the departure of the French army from Egypt Husrev Pasha, the new Ottoman Vali (whom we have already seen in the previous chapter and who would later become Mehmed Ali’s life-long nemesis) set out to train some of the mamluk soldiers along French lines after enlisting in his service all those French officers who stayed behind when their army left Egypt. Husrev also formed a Sudanese regiment and trained it in the French style after tailoring for them “tight” French uniforms. These he formed into a private escort guard for himself, and he appointed an officer to “teach them the positions of the French.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 423

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Shows the French training model was already being copied by Ottoman officials before Mehmed Ali — directly supporting the book’s argument against the lone-prophet narrative.
• XREF: Husrev Pasha training mamluk soldiers on French lines is a direct predecessor institution that Mehmed Ali’s army built on — key causal chain for the reader.

Related

• Husrev Pasha already trained mamluk troops along French lines before Mehmed Ali (similarity 0.97)
• Ottoman governor Husrev formed French-trained elite regiments before Mehmed Ali rose (similarity 0.92)
• Mehmed Ali’s army model drew heavily on Ottoman precedent, not only French example (similarity 0.87)
• Mehmed Ali’s army drew equally from Ottoman as from French military models. (similarity 0.83)
• Mehmed Ali’s 1815 attempt to reform his Albanian troops imitated French drill and dress (similarity 0.79)
• Husrev Pasha led Ottoman army reforms modeled on Mehmed Ali’s Egyptian system (similarity 0.79)
• Mehmed Ali ousted Husrev Pasha from Egypt and became vali himself (similarity 0.79)
• Mehmed Ali preferred Sultan Selim’s army model over Napoleon’s for organizing his forces (similarity 0.78)
• The new Egyptian officer corps was recruited from mamluks and Turkish speakers (similarity 0.78)