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Why did Helmuth von Moltke travel to the Ottoman Empire in 1835?
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Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke traveled to the Ottoman Empire toward the end of 1835 to serve as an advisor to Sultan Mahmud II. His primary mission was to assist the Sultan with the modernization of the Turkish Army.1