Navarino’s destruction drove Egypt to build its own fleet locally

Evidence

Following the destruction of his fleet in Navarino the Pasha was determined on acquiring a new fleet, this time not only by buying it from whomever would be kind enough to sell him ships, but also by attempting to build himself one in Egypt. With this end in mind he secured the services of a French engineer, M. de Cerisy, who started to construct an arsenal in Alexandria in June 1829. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 240

Categorization

• XREF: Arsenal-building in Alexandria connects to the broader military industrialization theme — echoes shipbuilding and infrastructure threads familiar from the reader’s other curated sources like ‘Grafting & Growth’.