Camels at the stack of "Camel" - "a symbol of gratitude Americans Turks?"

Camel cigarettes to bundle "Camel" is one of the few animals that appeared to produce tobacco industry. Of Western cigarettes, indeed, no other comes to mind is not.

We had a dog on cigarettes "Drug" and the horses on the "Troika". And, it seems, is all "tobacco fauna."

145 years ago, according to documents, events follow. After the war with Mexico in the mid-19 the century, when the American army has experienced serious problems with logistics support, the United States leadership has instructed the foreign missions to study the experience of other states and to adopt the best of it.

If you recall what animals in the conduct of military operations in hot countries using the same Britain, the answer imposed itself: camels.

In Washington, come to a similar conclusion, decided to seek the assistance of the Ottoman Empire and sent to Istanbul to acquire the ship and ocean transport for 30 camels.

Along the American embassy in the city on the banks of Bosporus October 29, 1855 in the Foreign Ministry handed over a message from the High Ports "lowermost request, given the nature of friendly relations between the two countries, to sell two thoroughbred male and two females camel."

Ottoman vizier Mehmet Emin Ali Pasha, read the dispatch, sent her a note of the intention of the Americans to buy another 30 camels, the top-source Abdulmedzhidu, knowing that only ruler Ports can be wise to take a decision on such an important issue.

Sultan indeed received wisdom, command Americans to donate two pairs of camels and 30 were sold.

Tough animals apparently were very useful in fighting the U.S. Army traverse because, as is evident from the Ottoman archives of the second half of the 19 the century, "a camel decided to perpetuate packets" Camel "as a symbol of gratitude Americans Turks".