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18th Century Janissary, artillery and sappers – Vol. II
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- Following from Volume I on uniforms, badges and rank insignia for 18th Century Turkish and other European Janissary, Volume II looks at Janissary organization and tactics used in battle by the Turkish Kapikulu Ocaklari [Kapikulu Akerleri]: Standing Army, from the later 18th Century to the Napoleonic era, and the traditional Artillery, Miners and Transport Troops, that had a direct relationship in terms of entrenchment battle tactics used at the time. This volume covers Janissary organization, weapons and equipment; encampments, entrenched…
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18th Century Turkish and other European Janissary – Vol. 1
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- 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 the…
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Late 18th Century Turkish Cavalry
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- 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 or Lancers; Deli;…
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Nizam-I Cedid: New order Army infantry & artillery 1792 till 1807 (Turkish Army)
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- 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), several Anatolian…
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La guerra dei tredici anni 1454-1466
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- Fratelli cavalieri ed eserciti mercenari dell’Europa baltico-teutonica nel XV secolo La guerra dei tredici anni (in tedesco Dreizehnjähriger Krieg; in polacco Wojna trzynastoletnia), conosciuta anche col nome di guerra delle città, fu combattuta dal 1454 al 1466. Essa ebbe iniziò con una sollevazione delle città, borghi e castelli della Prussia e della nobiltà locale con lo scopo di ottenere l’indipendenza dai cavalieri teutonici. La costituenda Confederazione prussiana chiese aiuto al re della Polonia Casimiro IV , il quale in cambio…
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Turkish army & navy 1826-1850
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- This book looks at the development and organization of Turkish Army, Navy and Police uniforms from 1826 till the early 1850s. In 1826, use of Janissary as the main Soldier-type ended and new Soldiers were uniformed, organized, equipped and trained according to a European Model Army design. In 1826, following crushing of the Janissary Revolt, and their formal disbandment, the new Mansure Army, was formed under Abdul Mahmud II, 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Reforms continued throughout the first…
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The Austrian army 1805-1809 – Vol. 3: The cavalry, artillery & other forces
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- The Austrian imperial-royal army during the napoleonic wars 1805-1809 vol. 3 Even when a history writer would have wanted to celebrate, maybe the greatest European power (on land), namely the Austrian Empire, he certainly would not had chosen the terrible year 1809. What for the military apparatus in Vienna could have been a beginning of a Great Military Reform, the triumph of the Generalissimus Archduke Charles, became one of the worst nightmares of Habsburg history. In short, after a series…
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The Austrian army 1805-1809 – Vol. 2: Grenzer, Lanswher & elite forces
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- The Austrian imperial-royal army during the napoleonic wars 1805-1809 vol. 2 Even when a history writer would have wanted to celebrate, maybe the greatest European power (on land), namely the Austrian Empire, he certainly would not had chosen the terrible year 1809. What for the military apparatus in Vienna could have been a beginning of a Great Military Reform, the triumph of the Generalissimus Archduke Charles, became one of the worst nightmares of Habsburg history. In short, after a series…
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The Austrian army 1805-1809 – Vol. 1 The infantry
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- The austrian imperial-royal army during the napoleonic wars 1805-1809 vol. 1 Even when a History writer would have wanted to celebrate, maybe the greatest European power (on land), namely the Austrian Empire, he certainly would not had chosen the terrible year 1809. What for the military apparatus in Vienna could have been a beginning of a Great Military Reform, the triumph of the Generalissimus Archduke Charles, became one of the worst nightmares of Habsburg history. In short, after a series…