The Janissaries — Ottoman Elite Warriors | Heritage Metal Sign

Taken as children, trained from boyhood to be the finest infantry in the world, owing everything to the sultan and nothing to anyone else. For three centuries the backbone of Ottoman military power. In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II had the Janissary barracks surrounded and bombarded — abolishing the corps that had become too powerful to control. The tall white felt cap, the kettledrum, the crescent and star, the corps that defined Ottoman military supremacy — in permanent aluminum.

• Premium aluminum · weatherproof · UV-resistant ink · Pre-drilled mounting holes · Ships worldwide