When the authorities insisted on forbidding the wives from accompanying their husbands, the men grumbled strongly “and in order to counteract the feeling of despondency as far as possible, the wives, concubines, and parents of the conscripts have been allowed to accompany them.”

XREF: Builds on earlier claims that soldiers' families followed them into camp shanty-towns (loc 657) and that Egyptian soldiers resisted conscription (loc 593). Builds on: "Soldiers' families followed them into camp shanty-towns"

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1160