This book looks at Turkish and Egyptian Naval uniforms and insignia from the Janissary era till the end of the First World War. Ship Janissary were distinguished with anchor or galley picture tattoos. The first red and green uniforms were introduced with the Nizam-i-Cedid Galeongees, followed by European-styled Officer’s uniforms appearing in the early 1830s. The Crimea War era saw Officers and Sailors in standardized uniforms. By 1861, uniforms and rank insignia, in line with the other Eu...

This volume looks at the Turkish Imperial, and Egyptian Army Cavalry from the 1870s till after the First World War. From 1879, there was introduction of a set of standardized and regulated uniforms and insignia, and the Turkish Cavalry consisted of its Dragoon and Lancer, Hamidiye, and Mounted Gendarme Regiments. This volume then looks at Turkish Imperial, and later Nationalist Army Cavalry uniforms during the First World War, and Greek-Turkish War. The Egyptian Cavalry divides into two ma...

This volume looks at the French Revolutionary War career of the Balloon Engineers. At the end of the late 18th Century there was a military fascination for the balloon, which continued unabated during the period of the French Revolution. By 1793, it was soon adopted as a revolutionary military function by the Committee of Public Safety, and then France's next government - the Directory, which continued to develop military ballooning. The campaign history of the Balloon Engineers is present...

A hallmark of late 18th Century Turkish style of warfare was an initial attack by thousands of massed Cavalry as the main offensive force on the battlefield. Regarded as the best in Europe, and feared with some justification for their sword mastery and valor in battle, European tactics changed in the face of the Turkish Cavalry threat. The Kapikulu Ocaklari: Standing Army’s Cavalry consisted of Sultan’s Household Guard Regiments, Zirkhli: Cuirassier - Armoured Sipahi, Sipahi Light Cavalry ...

This book looks at uniforms, rank-system, and organization for a new type of Turkish Soldier, other than Janissary providing the main Soldier-type during the French Revolution, and Early Napoleonic Wars. Debut of the Levend Chiftlik Regiment in 1799, during the French siege of Acre, and in the British-Turkish campaign in Egypt to expel the French occupation, introduced the Nizam-i Cedid: New Order Army. Having its beginning as part of the reforms of Sultan Selim III (1789 till 1807), sever...

This book looks at the Predynastic Period of Egypt when the First Armv of Hunter-Warrior-Soldier emerged at the crossing of the military threshold. This is best described as a state in military evolution, where various emerging societies worldwide, at one stage or another participate in organizing an Army of Soldiers for war. Beginning with Predynastic Hunter-Warrior bands and other early depictions of combat between armed Warriors, sieges, and war canoes that likely dominated the campaign...

This book looks at Egyptian Army uniforms from 1832 till 1914. Following the Napoleonic Wars, Muhammad Ali saw European training, discipline and tactics, as vital for improving his military power. The Egyptian Army divide into two main periods, before and after 1883 (when the new Egyptian Army was formally raised). Before 1883, there were nearly twenty Guard and Line Infantry Regiments having their beginning in the creation of the Nizam al-Jadid: New Organization. Around 1832, there was th...

This book looks at the uniforms worn by the Qajar era Regular Army from 1807 till 1848. Crown Prince Abbas Mirza, Governor of the Persian Province of Azerbaijan admiring the military reforms of the neighbouring Sultan Selim III, is credited historically as an early moderniser of the Persian Army, called the Nezam-e Jadid: New Order reforms. The first modern Persian Army, called the Sarbaz: Regular Infantry trained along European lines. The expansion of the Regular Army from the 1840s, in t...

This volume looks at the Turkish Imperial, and Egyptian Army Cavalry from the 1870s till after the First World War. From 1879, there was introduction of a set of standardized and regulated uniforms and insignia, and the Turkish Cavalry consisted of its Dragoon and Lancer, Hamidiye, and Mounted Gendarme Regiments. This volume then looks at Turkish Imperial, and later Nationalist Army Cavalry uniforms during the First World War, and Greek-Turkish War. The Egyptian Cavalry divides into two ma...

This book looks at the ranks, badges and uniforms worn by Turkish, and other European Janissary in the 18th Century. The follow-on Volume II of this book looks at Janissary organization and battle tactics of the Turkish Kapikulu Ocaklari [Kapikulu Akerleri]: Standing Army, from the later 18th Century to the Napoleonic era. Volume II also covers traditional Artillery, Miners and Transport Troops, who had a direct relationship in terms of the entrenchment battle tactics used at the time by t...

Volume 1: Turkish Army uniforms in the Crimean War Period, and Volume 2, which covers the Turkish Navy, the Contingents, Additional Cavalry Units and the Romanian Army, both acknowledge as its key source of information, the research by Charles A. Norman, a well-known British military artist and researcher. Norman’s work transliterated original observations, illustrations and notes made by two Crimean War Commentators: Joseph-Emile Vanson, and Constantin Guys. Constantin Guys was a reporter...

Volume 1: Turkish Army uniforms in the Crimean War Period, and Volume 2, which covers the Turkish Navy, the Contingents, Additional Cavalry Units and the Romanian Army, both acknowledge as its key source of information, the research by Charles A. Norman, a well-known British military artist and researcher. Norman’s work transliterated original observations, illustrations and notes made by two Crimean War Commentators: Joseph-Emile Vanson, and Constantin Guys. Constantin Guys was a reporter...