Conscription
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Conscription, also known as the draft in American English and Philippine English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by la
Painting depicting a battle during the Ōnin War
Registration of Christian boys for the tribute in blood. Ottoman miniature painting, 1558.
Ottoman Mamluk lancers, early 16th century. Etching by Daniel Hopfer (c. 1526–1536), British Museum, London.
c. 1808 painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly depicting French conscripts departing Paris in 1807.
Mamluk
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Mamluk or mamaluk or mameluke were non-Arab, ethnically diverse enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and administrative duties in the Muslim w
Conscription
…levies. The system of military slaves was widely used in the Middle East, beginning with the creation of the corps of Turkic slave-soldiers (ghulams or mamluks) by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim in the 820s and 830s. The Mamluks (; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); translated…
Mail and plate armour with full horse armor of an Ottoman Mamluk horseman (circa 1550), Musée de l'Armée, Paris
A Muslim Greek Mamluk portrayed by Louis Dupré (oil on canvas, 1825)
A Mamluk nobleman from Aleppo (Ottoman Syria, 19th century)