muhammad ali

Like it says on the tin. At the height of his power, between 1833 and 1841, Muhammad Ali Pasha controlled a state made up of Egypt, Sudan, Syria and the Hejaz that was independent from its nominal Ottoman overlord in all but name. However, his empire was destroyed as a result of the Oriental...

What would be the effects of Sultan Mahmud II dying during the Auspicious Incident ? The Auspicious Incident was the final janissary revolt before Mahmud II finally dissolved it allowing him to reform the Ottoman army along Western lines. Its also speculated that Mahmud II purposefully...

During the Oriental Crisis, Russia and Austria took sides against Muhammad Ali’s Egypt as it expanded into territories held by the Ottoman Empire. Even though Russia and Austria weren’t on good terms with the Ottomans, they weren’t fans of a rising Egypt. However, what if Muhammad Ali decided...

IOTL, the Oriental Crisis of 1840 sprung up as a result of a standoff between Muhammad Ali's Khedivate of Egypt, which had recently humbled its Ottoman overlords in an armed conflict, and the European Great powers (mainly Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia), over the borders of the new...

Bare with me I don't know if it's an historical exaggeration that I picked up somewhere in my time but from the way the story is told about the Rumble in the Jungle it seemed like Ali had enough star power to start a riot after that fight. I'm woefully ignorant about Zaire at the time (the...

“There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more...