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Wider Wargaming => Resources => Resources - Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Druzhina on 10 September 2016, 06:03:28 AM

Title: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: Druzhina on 10 September 2016, 06:03:28 AM
In Armies of the Ottoman Turks, 1300-1774 by David Nicolle & Angus McBride, there is a black and white picture of the new 'Tufekci' infantry (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Pashanameh-BL_Sloane_3584-f20a-BW.htm). It took me a while to find a coloured version: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers of Ken'an Paşa in a Pāshānameh, c. 1630. British Museum, Sloane 3584, folio 20a (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Pashanameh-BL_Sloane_3584-f20a.htm)
it can be seen that they all wear a red fez, but their coats are variously red, blue, brown, etc.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Ottoman Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Ottoman.htm)
Title: Re: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 10 September 2016, 06:05:29 AM
Fezzes are cool
Title: Re: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 September 2016, 06:08:25 AM
With bow ties?
Title: Re: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 September 2016, 06:18:34 AM
Is that a fez? It could be the tubular Janissary cap, couldn't it?
Title: Re: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: fred. on 10 September 2016, 07:38:09 AM
I think fezzes. On the bottom right of the picture are two Jannissary with their caps and these have been drawn very differently.
Title: Re: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers
Post by: Druzhina on 11 September 2016, 04:56:42 AM
On a few that are facing to our right can be seen 2 or 3 dark feathers in a brass coloured holder on the right-hand side of their fez.

Druzhina
17th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/17C.htm)