Mehmed Ali’s army preceded Egypt’s national revolution while Napoleon’s followed France’s

Evidence

In that respect, the main difference between the Pasha’s army and that of Napoleon is that whereas the former preceded the national bourgeois revolution, the latter succeeded it. It is this difference that accounts for the fact that when fighting for “Egypt” the soldiers in Mehmed Ali’s army were marching under banners with the Pasha’s name inscribed on them, while the French soldiers, when fighting what were essentially Napoleon’s wars and not those of the Revolution, did so under the tricolored standards of the Revolution. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1369

Categorization

• XREF: A clean causal explanation distinguishing the two armies’ ideological capacities; confirms the order-of-revolution point underpinning Egyptian military history.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1369