Abbas Ier Hilmi
See also: Abbas
Abbas Ier Hilmi (Arab: عباسالأول) (Djeddah, 1813 - Banha, close to the Cairo, 1854) is a viceroy of Egypt (1848 -1854). Wire of Toussoun Pasha, he is also a family member of Mehemet Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
In its youth, it fought in Syria under the orders of Ibrahim Pasha, his uncle or supposed uncle. Thanks to the British , it succeeds his/her uncle Ibrahim in November 1848, becoming thus governor of Egypt. Then with died of Mehemet Ali which had been deposited because of its mental state, it is made pasha. Savage opposing to the modernistic reforms its predecessors, it expels the European advisers, removes the commercial monopolies, firm the factories and the schools, and brings back the Egyptian army to a modest army of 9000 men. It also approaches the Ottoman Empire. Its army took part, at the sides of the Othoman forces, the Crimean War. He was generally seen like a man dark, reactionary and silent, seldom leaving his palate.
He was assassinated in 1854 by two of his slaves, and it is his/her uncle, Saïd Pasha which succeeds to him.
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