Specifically, it was concerning the manner of conducting the war against the Greek rebels in the Morea that the Pasha discovered that it was impossible to collaborate with the Ottomans in any future wars. The story of Mehmed Ali's involvement in the Morean war goes back to 1824 when an imperial order was dispatched to Egypt appointing Mehmed Ali to deal with the Greek uprising. Five months later the Pasha sent a force a force comprising 17,000 newly trained infantry troops and 700 cavalrymen assisted by four artillery batteries to the Morean peninsula in the south of Greece. These were four of the first six regiments that had been recently trained, and as far as the Pasha was concerned the Morean theater of operations provided a good opportunity to try them out, checking how loyal, disciplined and well trained they were. The new regiments were very successful and “caused as much alarm by defeating the Greeks as the Sultan had done by failing to do so.”

Builds on: "Conscription and modern state institutions created Muhammad Ali's new army."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 182