"1790-1826
Europe
1. Infantry
99th Djeemat Janissary Orta: 2000 Dervishes
55th Djeemat Janissary Otra: 1000? weapons instructors
6 Djeemat Chasseur Janissary Ortas (35th, 39th, 44th, 64th, 68th & 71st)
@ 500 skirmishers
93 other Djeemat Janissary Ortas@ 500 men on average
59 Benluk Janissary Ortas@ 500 men average
31st Benluk Marine Janissary Orta: 5000 men
with 2 regular skirmish Bttns@ 500 men, rifles, regular trained
60 Boluks (companies)@ 100 Rayas rifle armed skirmishers attached to Janissaries
34 Segban Acemi Oglan trainee Janissary Ortas@ 300 men on average
500 Coroudjis Guard Janissaries "foresters" – skirmish capable
500 Solak Guard Janissaries (Benluk Ortas 60-63) – skirmish capable
12,000 Bostanci Guard Infantry
1st Nizam-i-Jedid Regiment: 2 Bttns@ 1200 men, (1799-1807)
1 Topiji Battery: 10x 6pdr guns
2nd Nizam-i-Jedid Regiment: 2 Bttns@ 1200 men (1800-1807)
10 other Nizam-i-Jedid Regiments@ 2 Bttns@ 750 men (1804-07 in Anatolia)
5000 other Nizam-i-Jedid infantry (1806-1808 in Balkans)
6 Nizam-i-Segban Regiments@ 2 Bttns@ 800 men (1808 only)
3000 Yamak Auxiliary fortress guards
10,000 Rumeli mountian irregulars
15,000 Greek Martolos (Derbents)
25,000 Anatolian Sekhans
25,000 Albanian Sekhans
2000 Moldavian skirmishers mounted on mules
2000 Bulgarian Derbents
6000 Croat mountain irregulars
1000 Greek Kapoi guards
3000 Transylvanian Haiduk irregular infantry
2000 Moroccan Sekhan mercenaries
3000 Anatolian mountain irregulars
3000 Anatolian Derbents
15,000 occasionally allied Greek infantry of Ali Pasha of Janina (List T7N)
Allied Bosnian army (List T9N)
2. Cavalry
50,000 Anatolian Sipahis (on paper – poor local militia from 1807)
10,000 Albanian Sipahis (on paper – poor local militia from 1807)
20,000 Rumeli Sipahis (on paper – poor local militia from 1807)
15,000 Yoruks (Anatolian, Rumeli, Bosnian)
300+ Macedonian Yoruks
8000 Silahtar (ex-Guard) Suvarileri heavy cavalry
10,000 Sipahi Oglan Guard Suvarileri heavy cavalry
5000 Left & Right Ulefeciyan Suvarileri medium cavalry
5000 Left & Right Gureba Suvarileri medium cavalry
10,000 Sipahis of the Porte trained lancers
400 Sultan's Mounted Life Guard heavy cavalry
100 Guard Mamelukes of the Grand Vezier lancers
100 Guard Mamelukes of the Grand Seignoir lancers
500 Guard Mamelukes of Constantinople lancers
100 Gonullu Guard Djellis
100 Life Watch Guides Guard Djellis
18,000 Syrian light cavalry
10,000 Kurdish Light Horse (24 regiments)
6000 Bosnian, Serb and Croat Djellis
3000 Kurdish Djellis
2000 Anatolian Turkish Djellis
2000 Ukrainian Cossack mercenaries
4000 Wallachian light cavalry
10,000 Tarter light cavalry
5000 Transylvanian light cavalry
1000 Egyptian Mamelukes
4000 Nizam-i-Jedid regular lancers (4 or 6 units, 1800-1808 only)
10,000 Kerchalies mounted infantry (Rumelia/Bulgaria) in units of 1000 men
3. Artillery and Engineers
Topijis (regular artillery):
25 Foot Batteries@ 1 Section: 4x French 6pdr field guns
or 4x Turkish 4pdr or 8pdr or 14pdr Sahi field guns
1 Section: 4x 60-120pdr Balyemez old heavy guns
1 Section: 2x 8pdr, 14pdr, 20pdr or 25pdr Abus howitzers
3 (in 1808-12) (5 by 1815) Sultan's Guard Horse Batteries@ 10x 6pdr guns (1808+)
4+ French mercenary Foot Batteries@ 6x 6pdr guns (1807+)
Humbaraci (regular mortar corps, 1793+)
1 Siege Btty: 10x 25" mortars, 190 gunner-engineers
1 Siege Btty: 10x 14" 200pdr mortars, 190 gunner-engineers
1 Siege Btty: 10x 8½" 25pdr mortars, 190 gunner-engineers
1 Siege Btty: 10x 5½" mortars, 190 gunner-engineers
1 Siege Btty: 5x 8pdr Abus and 5x 14-20pdr Abus howitzers, 190 gunner-engineers
250 Lagimcilar engineers
# pontoon bridges
45? provincial batteries@ 2-4-6-10x guns from 4pdr Sahi to 120pdr Balymez
2 Russian deserter batteries@ 10x 12pdr guns (eastern Anatolia)
Dardenelles coastal artillery: 7 bttys each side sharing 253 guns and 15 mortars
Istanbul coastal artillery: 6 bttys@ 10x 800lb fixed waterline guns
Artillery Barracks: 24x 10" Culverins (120pdrs?) on carriages
Palace: 1 Spanish battery (Spanish crews)
4. Notes
a) Janissary Ortas are organised into 2 wings each of 5 companies.
b) Most other infantry are organised into Ortas of 300-500 men, and formed into groups ("brigades") of 1-6 Ortas, 1200 men being an average group strength.
c) Most cavalry are organised into Ortas of 10 squadrons, each squadron nominally of 100 men. Light cavalry tend to be in regiments of 400-500 men, Tarters and Djellis regiments up to 800 men strong.
d) Only the Nizam-i-Jedid/Segbans, Marine Janissary skirmishers and limited numbers of (about 1 in 6 units) Albanian and Anatolian Sekhans are trained in European style column-line-square tactics.
e) About one-third of Albanian Sekhans can be uprated to Arnauts, which are skirmish capable.
1. Mameluke Army July 21st 1798
Battle of Embaba ("Battle of the Pyramids").
Estimated Egyptian deployments:
West Bank East Bank
Murad Bey Ibrahim Bey
5100 Mamelukes 2000 Mamelukes
12000 Mameluke Foot Servants 400 Guard Mamelukes
300 Guard Mamelukes 5000 Mameluke Foot Servants
2000 Maghrebi Sekhans 18000 Fellahin
1000 Bedouin Foot 1000 Bedouin foot
2000 Bedouin cavalry
Abu Bekir Pasha, Ottoman Governor
Embaba fortified camp
4 batteries@ 10 guns (old type, Albanian gunners)
500 Janissary infantry
600 Mamelukes
2. Notes
a) Mamelukes were usually in regiments of 1000 cavalry with 2000 foot servants, who in theory followed up collecting discarded weapons and finishing off any wounded.
b) Fellahin were in 'battalions' of about 1000 men.
c) Sekhan infantry and Janissaries were in Ortas of 1000 men usually, 10 companies to the Orta. Each Orta has a Left & Right Wing, each of 5 companies, these generally equating to European battalions. Bedouin gathered together fighting in bands of 300-400 men.
d) Only Mamelukes, Sekhans, and Janissaries can form close order lines and columns, all the rest are loose order irregulars. No infantry can form square.
e) Murad was defeated, 2000 Mamelukes fleeing south, 3000 being killed, 1000 troops captured. Ibrahim Bey on the east bank fled with bodyguard Mamelukes and others to Syria, taking the Ottoman Pasha with him.
f) This order of battle has been derived from and cross- referenced with several contemporary and modern sources, including one Egyptian translation, so is most likely the most correct version produce to date in English.
g) See List AR6N for more details of the Egyptian army of
the period, and weapons carried by each troop type."
Unit ideas of The Ottoman Empire for Elite Units of the East (included 3D Model)
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