Most communications with Egypt were by sea where the Egyptian navy had a comfortable command over the waters of the eastern Mediterranean. Confronted with these defeats Sultan Mahmud II decided to raise yet another army in an attempt to “arrest the progress of an army whose success endangered the stability of his throne.” He therefore summoned the Sadrazam Mehmed Raşid Pasha (an ally and protégé of Husrev) and entrusted him with raising a new army from different provinces of the Empire. Towards the end of October 1832 the Sadrazam was able to raise a formidable army composed of 80,000 men divided into four major sections.

Builds on: "Ottoman sultan resisted Egypt's Syrian expansion with armed threats."

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