Muhammad Ali Pasha broke Egypt away from the Ottoman Empire in 1811. He wished to reform Egypt, and make it powerful wealthy. He slaughtered all the Mamluks in order to put himself in power. Ali began to modernize Egypt. He started this by hiring Western Commanders to train his men, and Ali began supplying his soldiers with modern rifles and cannon. He built a shipyard in Alexandria that started building massive warships. By 1830, 3,000 muskets were being produced a month, and ten 100 gun warships had been made.