The 1827 Navarino disaster turned Ali against assisting the Sultan

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• Navarino’s 1827 disaster turned Mehmed Ali toward independent military action. (similarity 0.85)
• By 1820 Mehmed Ali’s rule had brought unprecedented poverty and misery to Egyptian peasants (similarity 0.83)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali used the Wahhabi war to dispose of his troublesome Albanian troops (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali saluted crowds, unlike his predecessors who demanded prostration (similarity 0.81)
• The Porte’s refusal of European mediation destroyed the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at Navarino (similarity 0.80)
• The United States declined to back Egal against Osman in 1966 (similarity 0.79)
• Mehmed Ali actively dictated his own biography to a secretary (similarity 0.78)