Khedive Ismail's army /

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Main Author: Dunn, John P. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: 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.