Muhammad Ali maneuvered to replace expensive British technicians with trained Egyptians

Evidence

When he imported two steamships from Britain, the British technicians and workers manning them caused a lot of problems, basically because they were expensive, “stubborn and unreliable.” The Pasha then thought of appointing a couple of Egyptian men as assistants to the British workers to learn from them the job so that he could get rid of them eventually. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1548

Categorization

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