In the event, forty-five officers were shot in front of their soldiers. Eventually the rebellion was brought down by Osman Bey, the colonel of the first regiment, which was on its way to the Sudan. … In one incident it was reported that one of the sergeants of Osman Bey's regiment, when attacking a certain village found his own father among the rebels, and failing to convince him to give in peacefully, proceeded to kill him.

XREF: Connects to the earlier claim that army discipline manufactured national identity and to the brutal efficiency of Muhammad Ali's regime. FICTION: A straggered officer killing his own rebel father is a potent dramatic scene for stories about loyalty dividing families.

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 410