Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule
Portrait by Auguste Couder, 1840
Muhammad Ali's house in Kavala, now in northeastern Greece.
Massacre of the Mamelukes by Horace Vernet, 1819. The painting depicts the 1811 massacre of Mamelukes at the Citadel of Cairo in 1811
Muhammad Ali by Jean-François Portaels, 1847
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
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Ibrahim Pasha was an Egyptian general and politician; he was the commander of both the Egyptian and Ottoman armies and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman Wāli and unrecognized Khedive of Egyp
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
…exchange for his support in putting down the revolt. Muhammad Ali sent 16,000 soldiers, 100 transports, and 63 escort vessels under command of his son, Ibrahim Pasha. After Ibrahim sustained successive defeats in Greece (see Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani) Britain, France, and Russia intervened to aid the Greek…
Portrait by Charles-Philippe Larivière c. 1846
Ibrahim Pasha attacks Missolonghi in the year 1826, (by Giuseppe Pietro Mazzola).
Ibrahim Pasha, with father Muhammad Ali Pasha and Colonel Sève (Suleiman Pasha, right).