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Muhammad Ali of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Muhammad Ali, a young officer who had come to Egypt with the Albanian contingent of the expeditionary forces, stepped in to fill this vaccuum by establishing a local power base of village leaders, clerics, and wealthy merchants in Cairo, and by killing or expelling three successive governors sent from Istanbul. |
 | | Muhammad Ali reluctantly followed orders and sent his navy against the European fleet, and in the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827 almost the whole of the Ottoman navy was destroyed in only a few hours of fighting. |
 | | Muhammad Ali died in August 1849, and was buried in the imposing mosque he had commissioned, the Muhammad Ali Mosque, in the Citadel of Cairo. |
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