Said Mustafa Pasha was a general of the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish Wars and the French Revolutionary Wars. He led the Ottomans at the 1799 Battle of Abukir, during which he was wounded and captured.
Biography[]
Said Mustafa Pasha was born into an Albanian family that originated in Korce, and he was the brother of tobacco merchant Ibrahim Agca, the father of the future Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali, and he was also the cousin of the Ottoman ambassador in Paris. Mustafa Pasha fought in the wars against the Russian Empire before becoming Vizier of Trebizond, and he was Serasker of the Ottoman army on Rhodes during the Egyptian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars. His army landed in Egypt in 1799 and fought against the French at the Battle of Abukir, during which Mustafa Pasha lost two fingers to Joachim Murat's savre. Mustafa Pasha shot Murat in the jaw before being taken into French captivity.