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History of Ibrahim Pasha 1848
Ibrahim Pasha ibn Muhammad Ali Pasha Ibn Ibrahim Agha (1789-November 10, 1848), the eldest son of the governor of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha. He led a huge military campaign on the central Arabian Peninsula and eliminated the first Saudi state. Then he was appointed commander of the army against the Greek revolution, which had erupted against the Ottoman Empire to win independence. He took control of their strongholds and suppressed their revolution, which lasted from 1825 to 1828. However, the arrival of French soldiers forced him to evacuate Greece. When Muhammad Ali coveted the possessions of the Ottoman sultanate in the Levant, he sent him with a strong army, so he conquered Palestine and the Levant and crossed the Taurus Mountains until he reached "kutahe" in 1832 and 1833, and when the fighting resumed in 1839 between the Egyptians and the Turks, he won and defeated them a crushing defeat in the Battle of Nasib, which took place in June 1839 and took many weapons from the Ottomans. Still, the European countries deprived him of his conquest and forced him to evacuate all the sides he had conquered.
He was born in Nusretli, Turkey. He was a strong supporter of his father and helped him the most in all his projects. he was a valiant veteran in the war, not afraid of death, and an experienced leader who did not miss the small or large arts of war, and he established the Egyptian Hospice in 1816.
The wars he fought
He is considered one of the best commanders of armies in the nineteenth century, and he fought and won in the Arabian Peninsula against Abdullah ibn Saud in Diriyah, and then completed his war in Sudan. Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine. The beginning was when his father appointed him as the commander of the Egyptian campaign against the first Saudi state, which took place between 1816 and 1819, he ended their rule, captured their Prince Abdullah bin Saud and sent him to his father Muhammad Ali Pasha in Cairo, Muhammad Ali sent him to Astana, they paraded him in its markets for three days and then killed him, Ibrahim Pasha received a generous reward from the Sultan, and his father Muhammad Ali Pasha received the title of Khan, a title that only he had.
The war in Sudan
In 1821-1822, he went to Sudan to suppress a rebellion there.
The Moorish war
when the revolution against the Ottoman Empire was launched, the Sultan was unable to put it down, so he asked Muhammad Ali Pasha-the most powerful governor within the Ottoman Empire, to eliminate that revolution. Muhammad Ali sent his eldest son, Ibrahim Pasha .. Ibrahim succeeded in putting down the revolt and ended the rebellion. During this war, the Egyptian army gained field experience .. Muhammad Ali annexed the island of Crete (a reward from the Sultan)
First Egyptian-Ottoman War
The Egyptian-Ottoman war (1831-1833) or what is known as the first Levantine wars, which is considered the first part of the military conflict between Egypt and the Ottoman state, the sultan only granted him the Wilayat of the island of Crete, which Muhammad Ali did not agree with, and was the main reason for the outbreak of the war between them and ended with the victory of Ibrahim Pasha and the arrival of the influence of the state of Muhammad Ali to the Upper Euphrates River.
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
In 1839, the Ottoman Sultan moved an army to try to recover the lands of the Levant that Ibrahim Pasha succeeded in conquering during the first Egyptian - Ottoman war, and the result of this move was that Ibrahim Pasha prepared his army and marched back to Anatolia until the Battle of Nazib took place, which Ibrahim Pasha, with his military genius, was able to crush the Ottoman army, and here the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of collapse. Britain, Austria, and other European countries rushed to intervene and force Egypt to accept the London Treaty. Britain succeeded in igniting the revolts of the people of the Levant against Egyptian rule until the Ottoman Empire regained Syria, and Hafiz Pasha, accompanied by Moltke, marched the army to Syria.
Appointment as governor of Egypt
In 1848, he was appointed as his father's deputy to govern Egypt, and his father was still alive at that time, but his mental powers had weakened, and he became unfit for the mandate. But he predeceased his father in November of the same year. There are two dates for his appointment as governor of Egypt:
From September 2, 1848, until his death on November 10, 1848.
He took over the governorship of Egypt from the Sublime Porte in March 1848 due to his father's illness. But he did not live more than seven and a half months later and died at the age of sixty in November 1848.
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