The Egyptian army systematically recruited soldiers into Pasha’s new schools

Evidence

See, for example, S/1/48/4/5 on 13 Ca 1248/8 October 1832; S/1/48/4/100 on 1 Ş 1248/24 December 1832; S/1/48/4/112 on 16 January 1833; and S/1/48/4/298 on 18 B 1249/2 December 1833. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1396

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Egyptian soldiers were Arab recruits while officers were Turks. (similarity 0.87)
• The Egyptian army recruited and trained Syrians locally by 1835. (similarity 0.86)
• The Egyptian army coerced conscripts for the Pasha’s dynastic wars (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt conscripted 30,000 fellahin into training within a year. (similarity 0.82)
• The new Egyptian officer corps was recruited from mamluks and Turkish speakers (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali conscripted even self-maimed men into his army and projects (similarity 0.81)
• Syria’s two million people attracted Mehmed Ali’s conscription plans (similarity 0.81)
• The army conscripted Egyptians by force to fight for Mehmed Ali’s dynasty (similarity 0.80)
• Egypt’s modern army was founded through conscription in 1820–21 (similarity 0.80)
• Ali founded his conscript army in 1820-1 to secure his rule against Istanbul (similarity 0.80)
• Only 20,000 of 48,000 Egyptian conscripts were fit for military service (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian peasant-soldiers had been denied the right to bear arms for centuries. (similarity 0.79)
• Mehmed Ali’s 130,000-man army forced unprecedented state centralization in Egypt (similarity 0.79)
• The army forced peasants to fight for Mehmed Ali’s dynasty, not for Egypt. (similarity 0.79)
• Conscription stripped households of their primary breadwinners across Egypt. (similarity 0.79)