Khedive Ismail's army /
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Language: English
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Cass military studies.
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Call Number: DT106 .D85 2005
Table of Contents:
- 1. Diamonds in the rough
- 2. Creating a military machine : Muhammad Ali and his Neo-Mamluks
- 3. 'Hideous negroes from Nubia' : Egypt and the Crimean War
- 4. 'The army was his hobby' : Said and the Mexican adventure
- 5. Conscripts, stage villains, and slave-soldiers : rank and file in Khedive Ismail's army
- 6. Native-born or mercenaryselecting officers for the army of Khedive Ismail
- 7. Weapons procurement policies and the Egyptian economy
- 8. The Khedive and the Sultan
- 9. The imperial road : Egyptian expansion in the Sudan, 1869-1879
- 10. Imperial apogee : the coming of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War
- 11. Descent into the maelstrom : Egypt invades the Somali Coast, Harar, and the Awsa
- 12. A ridge too far : the Gundet Campaign
- 13. The Abyssinian army
- 14. The Gura Campaign (January March 1876)
- 15. End game.