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By John P. Dunn
Khedive Ismail's military examines army failure within the age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian military turns out a powerful local strength. It had a convention of good fortune, sleek guns, and mercenary officials with adventure in significant wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, was hoping to mix the imported know-how and brains with local manpower, and identify an Egyptian ruled Horn of Africa. His squaddies did overcome elements of the Sudan, yet they suffered disastrous defeats through the Egyptian Abyssinian conflict of 1875 to 1876.Presenting the 1st specific exam of the Egyptian Abyssinian struggle in English, this new book additionally appears to be like on the root difficulties that made Ismail's infantrymen useless. those comprise problems with type, racism, inner, and exterior politics, finance, and the quickly altering global of mid-Nineteenth Century army know-how. This booklet is aimed toward army historians, and should be of curiosity to these learning the center East or North East Africa.
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Indeed, some of the enlisted ranks saw service in Mexico as a death sentence. 48 The mutineers included disgruntled veterans who had recently been forced to leave their families behind at far-away El Obeid, and new recruits recently obtained as ‘tribute’, or ‘liberated’ from slavers. Combined with bad discipline, soldiers’ morale was further reduced by salaries six months in arrears. Fighting erupted on 3 July, when over 1,000 Sudanese attempted to storm Kassala’s citadel. Hasan Bey, the loyal commander, could call on less than 300 defenders, a motley collection of Bashi Bazouks, Egyptian artillerymen, and European travellers.
Although maintaining their traditional role as skirmishers, mountain warfare experts, and muscle for conscription authorities, they were also seen as an insurance policy against the regulars. 23 Another innovation was the creation of a camel corps. Envisioned mainly for internal security, its function was to increase the army’s mobility along Egypt’s desert frontiers. Indeed, despite contemporary claims that Abbas was a reactionary, completely uninterested in western products, he continued previous efforts to build a fleet of steam-powered river craft for the Nile, and allowed British interests to construct Egypt’s first railways.
Visually, he wanted his troops to be à la française, and then some. 7 Egypt’s new chasseurs à pied battalions epitomized this trend. Although useful troops, whose training allowed them to be deployed as skirmishers or line infantry, the desire to make them visual copies of their French counterparts entailed considerable expense. 8 Although Said combined a collector-like interest in militaria with profligate spending, sometimes he picked good products. For instance, he hired the French inventor and ballistics expert, Colonel Claude-Étienne Minié, who established a Cairo factory for his rifled muskets.