 In 1825, when leading an official French training mission in Egypt, General Pierre Boyer noted that soldiers who were insubordinate would face five hundred strokes of the kurbash, while those who attempted desertion would receive one thousand strokes.Other such accounts of the military at the time list the whip being applied for various discrepancies of soldiers, from losing water buckets to stealing apricots from a market.The use of the kurbash in this way was intended to not only discipline the soldier receiving the punishment, but also enforce obedience on the rest of the soldiers