Mehmed Ali invaded Syria partly because the Sultan denied him Syria as a reward

Evidence

The Syrian campaign, the most important of the Pasha’s wars, is seen to have a number of interrelated causes. On the one hand, Mehmed Ali felt that after all the help he afforded to the Porte in subduing both the Wahhabi and Greek revolts he was entitled to a handsome reward, and during the Morean war he had, in fact, asked for the four pashalɩks of Syria to be given to him as that most coveted reward. Once the Morean war was over, however, it became clear that the Sultan (under the influence of Mehmed Ali’s arch-enemy, Husrev Pasha) decided to turn down the Pasha’s request and Mehmed Ali was determined to take by force what, by then, he considered to be rightly his. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 195

Categorization

• XREF: Reward-denied-leading-to-forceful-claim echoes reader’s thread on Ottoman Pasha performances and their ambitions.