Americans in the Egyptian Army

Ok this reminds me with the "Last Samurai"

All this time I thought that we only depended on the French expertise in the Egyptian army in the 19 century ,but I turned to be wrong

We depended on American expertise too

In the time of Khedive Ismail "This man seemed had great ambitions for Egypt but could not do it right as his  grand father late Mohamed Ali Pasha

Now the American generals and officers Ismail brought to Egypt helped us in discovering Africa and river Nile , already real Egyptian historians know that Egyptian Army discovered lake Victoria before the British and it was even called lake Ismail !!

Americans in the Egyptian Army

Here  this is the website ,read it ,you will find very interesting historical facts

This week by the way there was a lecture some where about this

I believe this can be considered the first brick in the Egyptian - American relationship

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