The Sick Man Dies - Mahmud II overthrown

I thought Mehmed Ali came to power after the French had been driven out. I read al-Jabarti's chronicle of Napoleon's campaign there for my History of Islam in Africa class and al-Jabarti never mentions Mehmed Ali, just various idiotic Mameluke rulers.
 
Pretty Interesting

But wouldn't a better POD be in 1808, when Mahmud II was nearly killed along with Selim III on Mustafa IV's orders? And does anybody know a genealogy of the Giray dynasty into the 19th century? That would really help.
 
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