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The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their legitimacy from military activity. As an Egyptian dynasty, they derived much of their real wealth and power from maintaining a secure hold on their new homeland. As lords of a far-flung empire, they maintained much of their authority through garrisons and the threat of military action. To achieve this they devoted much of their activity to the development and maintenance of a large army and navy. This work focuses on the period of the first four Ptolemies, from the acquisition of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great to the great battle of Raphia more than a century later. It offers a study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution, and of its military operations, both reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds. It examines the reasons for Ptolemaic successes and failures, the causes and nature of military change and reform, and the particular details of the Ptolemaic army's soldier classes, unit organization, equipment, tactics, and the Ptolemaic state's strategy to compile a military history of the golden age of one of the classical world's significant forces.
Armies --- History --- Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Egypt. --- To 1500 --- Egypt --- History, Military --- Armies. --- History, Military. --- Military art and science --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية --- Army --- Military power --- Armed Forces
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The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army, the men who fought in all the battles, served as interpreters, military recruiters, and ethnic ambassadors throughout the campaign, and who were the real victors at the Battle of Omdurman. Making use of both published contemporary accounts and unpublished primary sources located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, 'Slaves of Fortune' provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. Ronald M. Lamothe is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Slave soldiers --- Esclaves soldats --- History --- Histoire --- Sudan --- Great Britain --- Soudan --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies --- Egypt. --- Military life. --- Soldiers --- مصر. --- Enslaved soldiers --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية --- Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan. --- Battle of Omdurman. --- River War. --- Sudanese soldiers. --- battles. --- ethnic ambassadors. --- front line troops. --- imperial forces. --- interpreters. --- military recruiters.
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Muḥammad ʻAlī Bāshā, --- ʻAlī Pasha, Muḥammad, --- Mehemet Ali, --- Méhémet Ali, --- Mehmed Ali, --- Mehmed Ali Paşa, --- Mehmed Ali Pasha, --- Mehmet Ali, --- Mehmet Ali Paşa, --- Mohammed Ali, --- Muhamed Ali Pasha, --- Muhammad Ali, --- Muhammad ʻAlī, --- Muḥammad ʻAlī, --- מחמד עלי, --- محمد علي --- محمد علي باشا --- محمد علي باشا، --- محمد علي، --- محمد على باشا، --- محمد على پاشا --- Egypt. --- مصر. --- History --- Military life --- History. --- Nationalism --- History of Africa --- Mohammed Ali --- anno 1800-1899 --- Egypt --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية
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This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an ethnically more integrated society. A new tripartite division of Ptolemaic history challenges the idea of gradual decline, and emphasizes the reshaping of military structures that took place between c.220 and c.160 BC in response to changes in the nature of warfare, mobilization and demobilization, and financial constraints. An investigation of the socio-economic role played by soldiers permits a reassessment of the cleruchic system and shows how soldiers' associations generated interethnic group solidarity. By integrating Egyptian evidence, Christelle Fischer-Bovet also demonstrates that the connection between the army and local temples offered new ways for Greeks and Egyptians to interact.
Ancient history --- Antiquity --- Egypt --- Forces armées --- Armies --- Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C. --- Aspect social --- History. --- History --- Sociology, Military --- Armies. --- Sociology, Military. --- Gesellschaft. --- Militär. --- Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Egypt. --- To 1500. --- Ägypten. --- History, Military --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- Army --- Military power --- مصر. --- Ptolemaic dynasty, 305 B.C.-30 B.C. --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر --- مَصر --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية --- Forces armées
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Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated Horn of Africa. His soldiers did conquer parts of the Sudan, but they suffered disastrous defeats during the Egyptian Abyssinian War of 1875 to 1876.Presenting the first
Ismail, --- Ismail Pacha, --- Ismail Pasha, --- إسماعيل، --- اسماعيل، --- Egypt. --- مصر. --- History --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر --- مَصر --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- History, Military --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية
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