Mehemet Ali (soldier)

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This article is about the Ottoman soldier. For other people of the same name, see Mehemet Ali (disambiguation).

Mehemet Ali, Pasha (1827 – 7 September 1878) was an Ottoman soldier. He was born in Brandenburg, Prussia as Karl Detroit, but left home when young, traveled to Turkey and embraced Islam. There, in 1846, Aali Pasha, later Grand Vizier, sent him to a military school. He received a commission in the Ottoman army in 1853 and fought against Russia in the Crimean War. He was made a brigadier general and Pasha in 1865.

In the 1877-1878 war against Russia, Mehemet Ali led the Turkish army in Bulgaria, before being superseded by Suleiman Pasha. Later in 1878 he was a participant at the Congress of Berlin. After being sent to Albania, he was killed by insurgents in Đakovica, Serbia on September 7, 1878.