... out. But the British had no desire to take over; they restored Ottoman rule. There was resistance and an ensuing struggle, and finally an Albanian garrison officer named Muhammad Ali seized power. Ali had fought the French and British and saw their modern armies and modern weaponry they used. He wanted this, without the ideology, so he single handedly dragged Egypt from ... its existence as a backwards Ottoman province into the modern world, over a period of about 40 years (1809-1849). Painful period for Egypt. Ali had to kill off old leaders, conscript Egyptian peasants into military s...

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