The Morea campaign drained Egypt’s money and even supplied the imperial navy.

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The new regiments were very successful and “caused as much alarm by defeating the Greeks as the Sultan had done by failing to do so.” However, being a real war and not simply a drilling ground, the Morea gradually became a source of extreme anxiety for the Pasha, and the longer the campaign dragged on, the more its effects were felt on his finances and resources. This was so not only because of the increased numbers of troops sent to the area of conflict with all that that entailed in terms of sending their pay, clothes and equipment, but more importantly because, in addition, the Sultan asked Mehmed Ali to furnish his navy’s needs as well. The imperial navy was thus sent to Alexandria to be repaired and replenished with equipment and food before it set out again to the Aegean. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 228