Mehmed Ali preferred Sultan Selim’s army model over Napoleon’s for organizing his forces

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• Mehmed Ali rejected Napoleon’s army model in favor of Sultan Selim’s organization for Egypt (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali’s army drew equally from Ottoman as from French military models. (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali used the Wahhabi war to dispose of his troublesome Albanian troops (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s army model drew heavily on Ottoman precedent, not only French example (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali saluted crowds, unlike his predecessors who demanded prostration (similarity 0.82)
• The Sultan mobilized an 80,000-man army but Ibrahim still crushed it at Konia. (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali rejected Napoleon’s army structure as unsuitable for his new force. (similarity 0.81)
• Army performance depended on officer-men relations more than on Ibrahim’s leadership (similarity 0.80)
• Mehmed Ali modeled himself on Napoleon and studied his military methods (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian army discipline shifted from brutal force to abstract internalized controls (similarity 0.80)
• Muhammad Ali deployed diverse officers to classify the Sudan. (similarity 0.79)
• Bonaparte seriously weighed recognizing Toussaint and using Saint-Domingue’s black army as a weapon (similarity 0.79)
• Military modernization required first destroying Mamluk power in Egypt (similarity 0.79)
• Husrev Pasha trained Sudanese and mamluk troops on the French model before Mehmed Ali (similarity 0.78)