Egyptian commanders drew their own soldiers as orderly but enemies as scattered
Evidence
In representing the minor skirmish that took place between the vanguards of the Egyptian and Turkish armies two days before the battle of Konia, for example, Kani Bey, assistant to Osman Nureddin, the Chief of Staff, followed the same simplistic procedure: the Egyptian units were drawn in nice and neat squares, red rectangles for the infantry, and yellow ones for the cavalry. The Turkish troops were represented by rectangles that were scattered with no order all over the map. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 903
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- SEED: Angle: how cartographic propaganda appears even in one’s own command documents, not just in retrospective histories.
Related
- Commanders drew their own battle maps to flatter their forces’ order (similarity 0.88)