Ibrahim Pasha commanded an army operating 260 cannons and over 60,000 guns by 1839
Evidence
See the interesting letter in which he boasts about being a commander of an army engaging in battles in which 260 cannons and more than 60,000 guns were being fired. His father reminded him that it was he who had supplied him with these cannons and rifles in the first place: S/5/47/2/160 on 6 Ca 1255/18 July 1839. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1396
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Ibrahim Pasha ranked among the Ottoman Empire’s best commanders (similarity 0.80)
- Egypt supplied Ibrahim’s army with 1,200 ship-loads of ammunition annually (similarity 0.80)
- Konia pitted 53,000 Ottomans against just 15,000 Egyptians and thirty-six guns. (similarity 0.79)
- Sultan Mahmud II assembled an 80,000-man army in late 1832 to stop Ibrahim Pasha (similarity 0.79)
- Ibrahim’s army won repeatedly despite poor pay and no ideological motivation (similarity 0.79)