What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Circassians were a people living in the Caucasus, and in the history books of the Middle East, the Circassians always appeared as slaves, and the slave trade had a profound impact on the history of this nation. For example, in the ottoman court, there were many Circus slave girls, and many Circus men were also sold to Egypt to become Mamluk warriors, and in the late Mamluk dynasty, the number of Circassians was comparable to that of Chincha.
Circassians
In 1382 AD, a Circus named Baguk established the Burji dynasty in Egypt, successfully replacing the Bakri dynasty established by the Chincha people, and the Mamluk dynasty entered the Burji era, and for a long time after that, most of the Mamluk sultans were Circassians.
The protagonist of this article, Nasir Mahabharata IV, was a Circus sultan of the Burji dynasty. Nasir was born in 1482 AD, and at the age of twenty-six, due to the death of his father, Nasir became the sultan of the Burji dynasty.
Nasir was neither as intelligent nor able to command the battlefield than his father, he was not an ambitious monarch, his father was very strict with him, and Nasir spent most of his time in the castle before he became sultan. And according to historians, Nasir was very, and after he became sultan, he placed many beautiful slave girls in the harem.
Sultan of the Circassians of the Burji dynasty
During Nasir's rule, most of the Mamluk legions of the Burji dynasty were Circassians, but Nasir did not have a good relationship with his people, believing that his Mamluk warriors were too traditional, refusing to use firearms and insisting on using machetes and bows and arrows.
In that era, firearms had begun to become popular, and Nasir, after seeing the power of muskets, decided to equip the Mamluk warriors with muskets, but the commander of the Mamluk legion refused Nasir's request, and the Mamluks believed that only cavalry with cold weapons were the most powerful, and they did not want to leave the horses to become an infantryman with muskets.
The refusal of the Mamluk warriors to use firearms made Nasir very angry, so Nasir decided to form a new army, he selected a group of strong black slaves in cairo's slave market, and then formed a "black slave musket team".
The weapons that the Mamluk cavalry were good at using
After the formation of this musket team, Nasir appointed his most trusted black slave Farajara as the general of the musket team, and gave Faraja a lot of power, Nasir wanted to use Faraja's musket team to compete with the Mamluk Legion, although most of the members of the Mamluk Legion were Nasir's people, but Nasir did not seem to trust them.
When the generals of the Mamluk legion learned that Nasir had established a musket team, they were very angry about this, because the Mamluk warriors feared that the members of the musket team would steal their jobs, and they accused Nasir of violating tradition and using black slaves as the military force of the state.
However, Nasir did not care about the accusations of the Mamluk warriors, and he continued to expand the strength of the musketeers and use the muskets to eliminate dissidents. This musketeer team also made many achievements for Nasir, and in order to praise the commander of the musket team, Farajara, he decided to give Farajara a Circus slave girl and allow the two to marry, and Nasir's behavior caused Farajara to be killed.
Costumes of the Circassians
The Circus of the Mamluk legions, on the other hand, were finally ignited when they learned that Nasir had allowed Faraj to marry his people. According to the historian Ansari, in order to vent their displeasure to Nasir, Mamluk warriors stepped onto their horses and attacked the castle where the musketeers lived.
When the Mamluk warriors arrived at the castle where the musketeers were stationed, they quickly defeated more than five hundred musketeers outside the city, and these musketeers, seeing that the situation was not good, fled back to the castle in a hurry, and then gathered on the tower of the castle and used muskets to shoot at the Mamluk cavalry under the city, resulting in the death of two Mamluk cavalrymen.
Seeing the tragic death of their comrades, the Mamluk cavalry immediately rushed into the castle, killing more than fifty musketeers such as Farajara on the city wall, while the remaining musketeers scattered and fled.
The Circassians on horseback
The black slave musket team created by Nasir was thus disbanded under the attack of the Mamluk cavalry. Nasir himself failed to avenge Farajara, because just a year later, Nasir was assassinated and his uncle became the new sultan.
The victory in this battle seemed to make the Mamluk warriors even more unconvinced of the power of firearms, but by 1517, the Mamluk cavalry had seen the power of firearms, and the Ottoman army equipped with firearms invaded Egypt and Syria, and defeated the invincible Mamluk cavalry, and the Mamluk dynasty was also declared dead.