home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998 / Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso / M / Mehemet_Ali / INFOTEXT < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-03  |  302b  |  9 lines
  1. Pasha (governor) of Egypt from 1805, and
  2. founder of the dynasty that ruled until 1953.
  3. An Albanian in the Ottoman service, he had
  4. originally been sent to Egypt to fight the
  5. French. As pasha, he established a
  6. European-style army and navy, fought his
  7. Turkish overlord 1831 and 1839, and conquered
  8. Sudan.
  9.