| | Saudi Aramco World : Ali's Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | What happened, Muhammad Ali told the Sultan in a letter explaining why it would be necessary to build vessels in Egypt, was that news of Egyptian naval preparations had reached Jiddah and his secret confederate, the Sharif, did not dare send the ships he had promised Muhammad Ali, lest his true loyalties be discovered. |
 | | Muhammad Ali decided to send Admiral Ismail Jibraltar to England to ask the East India Company, then responsible for governing the India possessions, for their leave to sail into the Red Sea and up to Suez. |
 | | In Arabia itself, the fleet moved the Pasha's army along the coastline for a number of attacks where the greater number of soldiers he was able to land from the vessels gave his army a decisive advantage. |
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