Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon 1800s, Masar karkashin Muhammad Ali Pasha ta haɓaka rundunar soji da sojan ruwa na zamani na Turai. Bayan shiga tsakani a yakin Girka na 'Yancin kai a kan bukatar Turkiyya ta Ottoman, an hallaka sojojin ruwan Masar a 1827 a yakin Navarino
da jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya, Faransa da Rasha. Tare da sojojin Masar a Girka sannan aka ware, Muhammad Ali ya yi yarjejeniya da Birtaniyya kuma ya janye bayan shekara guda.