CONTEXT: This post is based off a painting of Muhammad Ali Pasha who became the de facto ruler of Egypt in the early 1800s. One of his biggest obstacles in establishing his authority was the old mamluk slave soldiers class that held lots of power in Egypt and prevented modernisation of the army and bureaucracy. In order to get rid of the Mamluks he orchestrated many plots to entrap and kill/capture mamluk Beys and one of the most famous happened on March 1st 1811.
He had invited some remaining Mamluk Beys to a ceremony celebrating a victory against the Saudis in Arabia and after eating with them, when they were about to leave he shut the doors and his soldiers massacred over 400 Mamluks. Following this final victory, Muhammad Ali Pasha was the unquestionable ruler of Egypt and would soon turn his attention on the Ottoman Sultans in an attempt to challenge their authority in the first Egyptian Ottoman war)
Dedicated to u/homerius786
by wakchoi_
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Also the reason I edited him as a frog is because this was originally a [milestone post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/IslamicHistoryMeme/s/wWpqrBvm31) at r/islamichistorymeme and we slowly make the frog more elaborate every milestone.
ah the man, frog?, who pulled Egypt out of it’s feudal past.