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Mohammed Ali   /moʊhˈæmɪd ˈɑli/   Listen
Mohammed Ali

noun
1.
Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849).  Synonyms: Mehemet Ali, Muhammad Ali.






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... civilisation more powerful, more glorious, but no less aggressive. The impulse of conquest which hurried the French and English to Canada and the Indies, which sent the Dutch to the Cape and the Spaniards to Peru, spread to Africa and led the Egyptians to the Soudan. In the year 1819 Mohammed Ali, availing himself of the disorders alike as an excuse and an opportunity, sent his son Ismail up the Nile with a great army. The Arab tribes, torn by dissension, exhausted by thirty years of general ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill



Words linked to "Mohammed Ali" :   soldier, Mehemet Ali



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