These military victories, however, were not translated into new legal realities. The peace of Kütahia reached at after the cessation of hostilities did not grant Mehmed Ali the independence he was supposedly fighting for. As has been shown above, the inconclusive nature of this verbal agreement was not due to British or European hostilities to Mehmed Ali's schemes or to their interference in Istanbul to prevent him from pressing his demands. Rather, it was a reflection of the Pasha's own confused and ambivalent feelings regarding his position within the Ottoman Empire and his inability to come to terms with the legal implications of his rebellious moves, viz, to be declared a rebel by the Ottoman Sultan and to have Ottoman legitimacy withdrawn from him.

Builds on: "Ambivalence toward sultan reflected strategic rebellion, not identity crisis."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 266