Immediately after the fall of Acre in May 1832 the Egyptian soldiers we saw at the beginning of this chapter as an organized, well-trained and highly disciplined body of troops who enabled Ibrahim to accomplish what Napoleon failed to do thirty years earlier, these very same soldiers went on the rampage looting the city, attacking its inhabitants, and destroying their property. All semblance of order and discipline disappeared in the havoc that followed and a large number of soldiers seized the opportunity to desert the army altogether.

XREF: Connects to the theme of army discipline and coercive control already claimed in loc 410 (mutinous officers shot) and loc 593 (conscripts resisted through desertion). Pays off: "Resistance to modernizing troops could take covert violent forms."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 628