The Sekban-ı Cedid Army was a brief and unsuccessful attempt (29 August – 18 October 1808) by

Alemdar Mustafa Pasha Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (also called Bayraktar Mustafa Pasha; born 1755, died 15 November 1808) was an Ottoman military commander and a Grand Vizier born in Hotin (modern Khotyn) in the then Ottoman territory of Ukraine in 1765. Of Albanian or ...

to revive the

Nizam-ı Cedid Army The Nizam-ı Cedid Army refers to the new military establishment of the Nizam-ı Cedid reform program. The Nizam-i Cedid army was largely a failure in its own time, but proved to be a much more effective infantry force than the Janissaries. Aft ...

, based on European models.Mesut Uyar, Edward J. Erickson, 2009, A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk, ABC-CLIO, page 196 The attempt failed as the Janissaries revolted and killed Alemdar Mustafa Pasha. The Sekban-ı Cedid was abolished and all the privileges of the traditional

Kapıkulu ''Kapıkulu'' ( ota, قپوقولو اوجاغی, ''Kapıkulu Ocağı'', "Slaves of the Sublime Porte") was the collective name for the Household Division of the Ottoman Sultans. They included the Janissary infantry corps as well as the Six Div ...

corps, to which the Janissaries belonged, were renewed.

Bibliography

*Armies of the Ottoman Empire 1775–1820

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