Talk:Order of the Crescent

doubts
There are a lot of contradicting sources on the internet.


 * Some state that Nelson was the only recipient.
 * Are there sources for these other knights?
 * The article states "All the existing Ottoman orders could not be awarded to non-Muslims, and so Selim specially created the Order of the Crescent as a one-off for Nelson". Were there Ottoman/Turkish orders in 1799? I can't find any... The earliest was this one! Before that there were only chelengks.

My sources are


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Faithfully yours,

Robert Prummel (talk) 03:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Have you seen my Turkish orders project on ?