The Present State of Turkey: Or, a Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire; the Finances, Military and Naval Establishments; the State of Learning, and of the Liberal and Mechanical...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ... well-organized body, necessary to give quickness, strength, and regularity, to its actions, to avoid confusion, to repair damages, to apply every part to some use: nothing, as with us, the result of reasoning and combination, no systematic attack, defence, or retreat, no accident foreseen or provided for." Marsigli, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ... well-organized body, necessary to give quickness, strength, and regularity, to its actions, to avoid confusion, to repair damages, to apply every part to some use: nothing, as with us, the result of reasoning and combination, no systematic attack, defence, or retreat, no accident foreseen or provided for." Marsigli, whose calculation though made a century ago is perhaps the most correct of any which have hitherto been published, divides the whole military force of the Ottomans into two classes, and estimates the number of each as follows. The capiculy consists of infantry and cavalry: the infantry, composed of janizaries, cgemoglans, lopgis, gebegis, and sakkas, amounts to 58,864 men, of whom 21,426 janitaries are required for the garrisons and frontier towns: the cavalry, consisting of spuhU and chaouscs, amounts to 15,284. The feudal militia, or the total of the contingentsof all the pashaliks, the ziamets, and the timurs, amounts to 126,292: besides Which the Tartars formerly furnished 12,000 tributary soldiers; and the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia 8000 men, but these should not be considered as soldiers, as they were chiefly employed in servile Itbour, and many of them carried only a spado and picckaxe. The terratcufy cannot be calculated, as they were enlisted only in time of war, and in such numbers as the service required. (See Stato militare dell'imperio Ottomanno, V. i. pp. 90. 134.) I with their bayonets, against a wall. It is pleasing to contrast the energies of an independent people with the slavish submission of those, who see nothing but a change of governors in the subjugation of their country. The fellahs of Egypt, a race of people still more abject than the rayahs of Turkey, withheld their contributions from the French, as...
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