 | 1837 - 722 sider
...the French model, and divided into five battalions of eight hundred men each ; each regiment being a small corps d'armee, that could be employed separately under its own colonel. In three years six regiments were completed, making an array of 24,000 men. In 1824 the new regiments... | |
 | Muḥammad 'Alî (pasha of Egypt.) - 1841 - 116 sider
...the French model, and divided into regiments of five battalions of 800 men each. This organisation (which has since undergone some modification) was...perfect chiboukdgee oftentimes made but an indifferent chef-de-bataillon. * Colonel Seve is now Solyman Pasha. THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED ALL 21 In the course of... | |
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This organisation (which has since undergone some modification) was considered as the best calculated for the kind of warfare in which the Egyptian army was, in the first instance, likely to be engaged, each regiment forming as it were a small corps d'armee,... 