War in Morocco - Arab and Moorish cavalry, 1844. 'The Emperor of Morocco has not a part in his dominions that might not be taken by a frigate and two bomb-vessels in less than four hours. His army is a farce, and their mode of warfare perfectly ordnance is dangerously Emperor could at no time gather or hold together 100,000 fighting men, and these comprising a host of such ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-armed their bigoted habit of excluding from their country all Europeans, and from the little experience they have gathered of European war tactics, it
War in Morocco - Arab and Moorish cavalry, 1844. 'The Emperor of Morocco has not a part in his dominions that might not be taken by a frigate and two bomb-vessels in less than four hours. His army is a farce, and their mode of warfare perfectly ordnance is dangerously Emperor could at no time gather or hold together 100,000 fighting men, and these comprising a host of such ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-armed their bigoted habit of excluding from their country all Europeans, and from the little experience they have gathered of European war tactics, it will be some they will be able to make any stand against the annexed engraving will convey an idea of the Arab cavalry, the Emperor’s chief forces, against whom the French troops have to contend'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.
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