Under half of collected Egyptian conscripts were fit for service

Evidence

It was reported that out of 48,000 men collected throughout the 1820s and sent to the Hankah camp to the north of Cairo only 20,000 men were fit for military service. “Lame, blind, decrepid, all were sent without distinction.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 410