Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . e calamity which had befallen their brethren beingmade known, shared a like fate. The retired to Dongola and Nubia;but they were scattered by Ibrahim Pacha, and from that period the total de-struction, or, at least, the complete subjugation, of the once-proud Mamelukesmay be dated. Ibrahim now extended his fathers sway over N
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . e calamity which had befallen their brethren beingmade known, shared a like fate. The retired to Dongola and Nubia;but they were scattered by Ibrahim Pacha, and from that period the total de-struction, or, at least, the complete subjugation, of the once-proud Mamelukesmay be dated. Ibrahim now extended his fathers sway over Nubia, Dongola,and Koordossan, and reduced the Wahabees after a sanguinary campaign. Mehemet Ali assisted the sultan in the war of the Greek revolution ; hisstep-son and successor, Ibrahim Pacha, was the chief leader of the Turks; andhis ships sustained the shock of the allied navy in the untoward affair ofNavarino, in 1827, which well nigh annihilated the naval power of the viceroy,at least for a long season. Notwithstanding this adversity, his power as aruler of Egypt no way declined, for he long ere this possessed an army disci-plined after the European fashion; Colonel Selves, a French officer (now Su- MEUEMET ALL 495 ^^Si^aKsiMii*^^; ;^^ iiiji 1jii II. 496 MEHEMET ALT. leyraan Pacha), having addressed himself to this task in 1815, and at lengthsucceeded, after a persevering contest with the prejudices of the people, duringwhich he more than once narrowly escaped assassination. In 1831, Mehemet AH entered into a contest with the sultan, Mahmoud IV.,for the possession of Syria, when the superiority of his army thus disciplinedbecame very manifest. His step-son Ibrahim, who in 1819 had signalized him-self by his conquest of the Wahabees, commanded the army sent against Syria ;and such was the vigor with which he assailed the forces of the sultan, that, inthe autumn of 1832, he had carried his victorious arms within a few daysmarch of Constantinople. For aeven years subsequentl
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