Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300–1774

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Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300–1774

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The birth of the Ottoman state is shrouded in legend. Whatever the truth of its origins, the Ottomans formed an Empire which almost succeeded in bringing Christian Europe to its knees. During the last decades of the 13th century, the ambitious Osman Bey's tiny mountain state took eight frontier castles plus the Turkish town of Eskisehir. In 1299 Osman seized Yenisehir after working up the Kara Su valley. With this as its first real capital, the Ottoman state emerged into history poised above the fertile shores of the Sea of Marmara.

Table of Contents

The Gazi State · The Ottoman Army, 14th to 16th Centuries · The Struggle for Military Reform, 17th to 18th Centuries · Arms, Armour, Fortification and the Fleet · Chronology of Ottoman Conquests and Losses · Campaigns and Battles · The Plates

Product details

Published Jul 28 1983
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 48
ISBN 9780850455113
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 50 b/w; 8 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Men-at-Arms
Short code MAA 140
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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David Nicolle

David Nicolle is Visiting Research Fellow at the I…

Illustrator

Angus McBride

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