04-01-2003, 10:16 PM
Mameluke? Mayhap a two-handed Mameluke sword?
Like this one? Mameluke Sword circa 1831
Or this one Other Mameluke Saber
Add a bit of length, add a fancy handle, and maybe you are there. Or maybe they envisioned a Weta Workshops hybrid Mameluke/Katana. :D
The U.S. Marine's officer's dress sword is curved, per a saber or scimitar, and is called a Mameluke after the fashion of a sword presented to Presley O'Bannon after his raid on Derna, 1805ish. About Presley O'Bannon
Marine NCO's use a cavalry saber, and there is a nice little bit of trivia that goes with that.
USMC NCO Sword Trivia
The Mamelukes (Mamluk's in another spelling) were cavalry of the Ottoman Empire, IIRC, or perhaps 'an Egyptian military caste in the sultanate from the 1200's to the 1500's.' For some reason, I recall their having also been Eunuchs, but that may be an error.
From Short and Sweet Mameluke
They might have looked like this . . . when Napoleon dropped by and made a hash of them near the Pyramids.
Mameluke Action Fig
I had thought that George R. R. Martin had copied the Mameluke idea with the mercs the dragon princess (Game of Thrones series) got her hands on to in the second or third book.
Sorry, I went Tag Happy. :)
Like this one? Mameluke Sword circa 1831
Or this one Other Mameluke Saber
Add a bit of length, add a fancy handle, and maybe you are there. Or maybe they envisioned a Weta Workshops hybrid Mameluke/Katana. :D
The U.S. Marine's officer's dress sword is curved, per a saber or scimitar, and is called a Mameluke after the fashion of a sword presented to Presley O'Bannon after his raid on Derna, 1805ish. About Presley O'Bannon
Marine NCO's use a cavalry saber, and there is a nice little bit of trivia that goes with that.
USMC NCO Sword Trivia
The Mamelukes (Mamluk's in another spelling) were cavalry of the Ottoman Empire, IIRC, or perhaps 'an Egyptian military caste in the sultanate from the 1200's to the 1500's.' For some reason, I recall their having also been Eunuchs, but that may be an error.
From Short and Sweet Mameluke
Quote:MAMELUKE SULTANS OF EGYPT
(AD 1252 - 1811)
The Sultanate of Egypt was seized from the Ayyubids by the Mameluke slave-soldier Aybak. The Abbasids still held the title of caliph and held court at Cairo, but were puppets of the Mamelukes, who were descended from Turkish tribes who invaded the Middle East in two major waves in the 11th and 12th centuries.
They might have looked like this . . . when Napoleon dropped by and made a hash of them near the Pyramids.
Mameluke Action Fig
I had thought that George R. R. Martin had copied the Mameluke idea with the mercs the dragon princess (Game of Thrones series) got her hands on to in the second or third book.
Sorry, I went Tag Happy. :)
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete