Sultan Selim’s nizam-i cedid set the model for disciplined armies across the empire

Evidence

Most important of these Ottoman attempts to create a disciplined army was Sultan Selim’s new army, the nizam-i cedid. Selim’s formation of the nizam-i cedid was a phenomenal act that caused much uproar in the capital and whose reputation far exceeded the boundaries of Istanbul and spread all over the Empire. So famous were the tactics that Selim introduced in his army that when in 1802 Husrev Pasha attempted to organize his troops in Egypt along modern lines with the assistance of some French officers, he gave them the Ottoman name, the nizam-i cedid. Moreover, some of these new nizami troops of Sultan Selim had a chance to come to Egypt as part of the Ottoman forces that were sent by sea under the command of the Capitan Pasha to expel the French from the country. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 426

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines nizam-i cedid as Sultan Selim’s new disciplined army and shows it spread as a tactical model to Egypt as early as 1802.