The wars that the Pasha fought, and in particular those that were waged against the Ottoman Sultan, could not therefore be viewed as wars of national independence, aimed at liberating the Egyptians from the “Turkish yoke,” nor could they be compared to those that the Greeks fought against the Sultan. Not only would the thousands of fellahin who made up the bulk of his fighting force have found this claim difficult to believe, but also the Pasha himself could think of these wars only along dynastic lines. He repeatedly said that what he was seeking to do was to foil the intrigues directed against “our family,” and hoped for nothing more than to “strengthen the foundations of my dynasty,” and to “carve a place for my family and my dynasty’s families in history to be remembered in four or five centuries’ time.”

XREF: Builds directly on the dynastic-struggle framing at loc 1551 and the earlier claims about fellahin resisting conscription and lacking nationalist motives. Builds on: "Mehmed Ali's fight with the Sultan was a dynastic struggle, not national war."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1552