On the morning of 27 May the attack took place as planned. All the details were executed as previously laid down. Ibrahim Pasha was even capable in the midst of the three-hour battle to send 100 cavalrymen to move the wounded to the camp to be treated by the army doctors and surgeons who were waiting there. Finally at sunset four notables came out of the castle asking for safe-conduct (amān) and when they were granted it 'Abdallah Pasha gave himself up to Ibrahim Pasha.

XREF: Connects to loc 628's point about bureaucratic rules driving disciplinary practice, and to the broader theme of Mehmed Ali's army combining brutality with orderly governance. Builds on: "Egyptian military law lacked provisions governing sodomy in 1824."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 646