"Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801" by Michael Barthorp Osprey MAA 79 Pub: 1978 - reprinted 2002
"The aims of this book is to provide an outline of the campaigns and to examine in greater detail the armies which marched and fought amid the desert sands and the relics of earlier civilisations."
It concentrates on the French & British - the Ottomans get 5 paras (roughly one page), no plates and two, dedicated, black & white illustrations.
I didn't expect too much from this book(let) - good job - as it is in dire need of updating/revision.
http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.co.uk/
(scroll down on the right to Egipto Napoleonico)
The colour plates need no explanation but an earlier series has text in French which is beyond my limited linguistic abilities.
A few more Ottomans here:
https://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/1657-till-1845-egyptian-army/
Finding any more uniform info will require purchasing a number of books - don't know if I can justify the outlay for a side project....hmmm!
Weekly Roundup
Saturday 20th January 2018 - WDW - a big game of "To The Strongest". I missed the club practice a few weeks ago but still got drafted into the inter-club game (v York). It was a three-table scrap between Yorkists and Lancastrians (Wars of the Roses) and the 'home' side won convincingly. OK first the gripes - far too many mounted knights on the table. Classified as 'later knights' they were far too strong (WoR knights are always rated as Inferior in other rules and mostly fight dismounted). Perhaps they should have been counted as 'raw'! On the plus side it was an interesting introduction to the rules which have similarities to 'Square Bashing'. Even though there are no dice our Lancastrians managed to pull more than their fair share of Aces.
Wednesday 23rd January 2018 - finished reading a Dr Who book "The Price of Paradise". Had this nagging feeling that I had read it before but I couldn't remember the plot. There are some advantages to a failing memory then.....
Saturday 20th January 2018 - WDW - a big game of "To The Strongest". I missed the club practice a few weeks ago but still got drafted into the inter-club game (v York). It was a three-table scrap between Yorkists and Lancastrians (Wars of the Roses) and the 'home' side won convincingly. OK first the gripes - far too many mounted knights on the table. Classified as 'later knights' they were far too strong (WoR knights are always rated as Inferior in other rules and mostly fight dismounted). Perhaps they should have been counted as 'raw'! On the plus side it was an interesting introduction to the rules which have similarities to 'Square Bashing'. Even though there are no dice our Lancastrians managed to pull more than their fair share of Aces.
Wednesday 23rd January 2018 - finished reading a Dr Who book "The Price of Paradise". Had this nagging feeling that I had read it before but I couldn't remember the plot. There are some advantages to a failing memory then.....
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