Punishing Egyptian rebels with Sudanese service was seen as near capital punishment

Evidence

The punishment for many of the soldiers of lesser rank who had participated in the rebellion was reassignment to the Sudan to fight the Mahdï (a fate considered by many to be equal to capital punishment). — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 511 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

As was said above, the first attempt at conscripting the Egyptian fellahin stemmed from the desire to relieve the Turkish soldiers in Mehmed Ali’s pay from serving in the remote and hot lands of the Sudan. The 4,000 peasants who were gathered from villages in Upper Egypt to replace them were to be conscripted for only three years at the end of which they would each be given a stamped certificate and allowed to return to their villages and resume their normal, civilian lives. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 466 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site; British punished Egyptian rebels by sending them to fight the Mahdï in Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 511; Egyptian conscription began as a way to spare Turkish troops Sudan service — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 466 (+1 more)

Related

• British punished Egyptian rebels by sending them to fight the Mahdï in Sudan (similarity 0.92)
• Exiled Egyptian rebels were punished by reassignment to fight the Mahdi in Sudan. (similarity 0.91)
• The Mahdi’s rebellion mobilized Sudanese against Egyptian taxation and slave-trade abolition (similarity 0.86)
• Defeated Egyptian rebels were degraded and sent to Sudan as punishment (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian conscription began as a way to spare Turkish troops Sudan service (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to the Sudan as a penal colony (similarity 0.80)
• The Sudan served simultaneously as Egypt’s penal exile and its soldiers’ promotion ground (similarity 0.79)
• Thousands of Egyptian soldiers and bureaucrats worked in the Sudan after 1919 (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian soldiers were transported to Suez like prisoners and livestock (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• British punished Egyptian rebels by sending them to fight the Mahdï in Sudan #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 511
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site #corroborates (0.70)
• Egyptian conscription began as a way to spare Turkish troops Sudan service #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 466