Ibrahim gave effective support to the Frenchman Colonel Sève (Suleiman Pasha), who was employed to drill the army on the European model, and set an example by submitting to be drilled as a recruit himself.
Evidence
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ibrahim Pasha (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Sultan mobilized an 80,000-man army but Ibrahim still crushed it at Konia.