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TIL Khedive Ismael Pasha recruited about 49 American officers between 1869–78 to modernize the Egyptian army including veterans from both sides of the American Civil War who ended up serving together in Egypt. They helped train Egyptian troops, worked on military engineering and surveying projects.

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