River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-08
BLGEN ZACHAPYT SWEENEY
CF0Rr1ER CONSUL GENERAL AT
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vitsch, rode to
the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important to reveal to Amurah in person.
On being the Turkish sovereign he knelt If to
pay him homage and then stabbed Amurath with sud-
den and mortal stroke of his dagger Milosch sprang
his knees being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that thronged
around him. and found his way to where his horse had
been left but before the Janissaries
overpowered him and hacked him to pieces. Amurath
realized that his wound mortal, but had sufficient
presence of mind to give orders for charge of his re-
serves which decided the victory in favor Of the Otto
mans. He died pronouncing the death doom of King
Lazarus, who conquered But that was not the
death of the day When Prince Bajazet realized
that the victory the Christians was accomplished,
and he was acknowledged by his fathers generals
their sovereign he Immediately ordered his brother,
Yacoub who had fought valiantly by his SIDE to be
seized put DEATH He justified the act by saying
that "sedition is than murder saying that has
caused many Ottoman sultans to commit acts OF
cruelty since that time.
Bajazet commenced his reign upon battlefield, and
followed up the against the Servians with such
vigor and success that he was named Yiderlm, or
Thunderbolt" After completing the Servan Baja-
to Asia and increased the territory of the
sultan by conquest of several adjoining states cara
mania which had long held out Independent state,
acknowledged Baazet sovereign. Glutted with VIC
tory and rapidly augmented power Ba1azet gave him.
self sensual of the foulest kind He
the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of against the of wine. Ali
Pasha favorite general set his master the example
of drunkenness infamy of these two lives suy
pages Oriental history Baazet startled from
his reves by Christian chivalry of Franks
The Christian army marched against the Ottomans
down through Pennsylvania Wallachia Serva. They
captured Widdin, Orsoca and invested Nicopolis, but
Baaze marched against them and nglorously dispersed
them After the conflict Bajazet pitched his tent in front
Nicopos and rode the field of battle When he
saw the of his dead soldiers it enraged him
that he 81 will have this slaughter well avenged
prisoners. The next morning the Christian pris
the number of ten thousand were led out with
their hands behind them and with haters around
their necks After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
oricO he he
signal for slaughter to commence and the unhappy
captives fell in front of his tent
The battle of Nicopolis was the highwater mark in
the power of Bajazet. He soon made preparations to
invest Constantinope The Byzantine king searched all
Europe assistance and descended to the humi
alton asking aid from his odtime enemy the pope of
Rome, but all in vain. Just at the moment when it
seemed that Bajazet the point of entering Con-
stannople cluod in the eastern horizon in the
shape Tamerlane the Tartar who though 20 years of
age had succeeded in uniting number of conquered
provinces into strong empire and had marched against
the dominion of the Ottoman empire, captured the
city of Sivas, and put the inhabitants to the
sword killing others Prince Eroghrul the son Of
Bajazet who when he heard of the death of his
hurried at the his veteran troops against Tanner
lane He seemed, however to have lost his usual eau
ton and sagacy; with only 10000 he swept for
ward against army of 100000 and to show his reck
lessness engaged in grand hunt in the neighborhood
of Angora until they entirely exhausted Return
ing to quarters he found that the willy Tartar had
possession of his and poisoned the stream
and his weary thirsty troops had spend the night
without water. The next day ne led the dsplred army
to battle and while many of them gave good account
of themselves others exhausted that they
themselves to the enemy, and on the field Of
Angora his ancestor, Ertoghru, nearly two hun
dred years previous had laid the foundations of the Otto
man empire, he overthrow, and his empire shat
tered to fragments. Bajaze with of his sons
captured and made show in the triumphal pageant Of
his conuueror He carried in atticed litter and
there arose story that he had been placed in
an iron cage Thus the empire Of the Ottomans, that
had swept over Asia and large part of Europe, till it
had earned the title, Wrath of Cod" suddenly termi-
mated and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing SO characterzes the rule of the Turk its
recuperative power Often has it been seemingly
swept the face OF the earth, but imme
diately there arises again mighty power having the
spirit predecessor. Mohammed l., the of
Bajazet took the shattered fragments which his father
had left and began the work of building up the Ottoman
power The Greeks said of him that he "as