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vitsch, rode to
the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important secrets to reveal Amurah in person
being the Turkish sovereign he knet if to
pay him homage, and then stabbed Amurath with sud-
den mortal stroke of his dagger Milosch sprang
from his knees and being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that thronged
him. and found his way to where his horse had
left but before he could remount the Janssares
overpowered him and hacked him to pieces. Amurath
realized that his wound mortal but had sufficient
presence to give orders for charge of his
serves which decided the victory in favor Of the Otto
mans. He died pronouncing the death doom Of King
Lazarus who conquered. But that not the
saddest death of the day When Prince Baazet realized
that the victory the Christians accomplished
and he acknowledged by his fathers generals
their sovereign, he Immediately ordered his brother,
Yacoub who had fought vaantly by his side, be
seized and put to 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 Yilderim
"Thunderbolt" After completing the servian war; Baja
yet returned 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 Bajazet sovereign. Glutted with VIC
tory and rapidly augmented power, Bajazet gave him
self to sensual of the fouest kind. He
the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the koran against the of wine. Ali
Pasha his favorite general his master the example
of Drunkenness the nfamy of these lives sully
the pages of Oriental history Bajaze startled from
his by crusade of Christian chvary of Franks
TAM The Christian army marched against the Ottomans
down through Pennsylvania Walachia and servia They
captured Widdin Orsoca, and invested Ncopolis but
Bajazet marched against them and ngoriousy dispersed
them After the conflict Baazet pitched his tent in front
of Ncopois and rode the field of battle. When he
the number of his dead soldiers it enraged MIN
that he said Il will have this slaughter well avenged
the prisoners" The next morning the Christian prs
oners the number of ten thousand led with
their hands bound behind them and with halters
their necks. After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
among the prisoners their liberty the sultan the
signal for the slaughter to commence and the unhappy
captives fell in front of his tent.
The battle of Nicopos the high-water mark in
the power of BajaZet He made preparations to
invest Constantnople The Byzantine king searched all
Europe for assistance and descended to the hum
alton of asking aid from his oldme enemy the pope OF
Rome, but all in vain. Just at the moment when IL
seemed that Bajazet the point of entering Con-
stannople cuod arose in the eastern horizon in the
shape of Tamerane the Tartar who though 70 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
ancient city of svas and put the inhabitants to the
sword killing among others Prince Ertoghru Of
Baazet, who when he heard Of the death Of his son,
hurried at the head OF his veteran troops against Tanner
lane seemed however to have lost his usual eau
ton and sagacity; with only 10000 swept for
ward against army of 100000 and, to show his
lessness engaged in a grand hunt in the neghborhood
of Angora until they entirely exhausted Return
ing his quarters he found that the willy had
taken possession of his and poisoned the stream.
and his weary and thirsty troops had to spend the night
without water The next day he led the disprited
to battle and while many Of them gave good account
of themselves others exhausted that they gave
themselves to the enemy, and the field Of
Angora where his ancestor Eroghrul nearly two hum
dred previous had laid the foundations the
man empire, he overthrown, and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet; with of his sons,
captured and made show in the trumphal pageant
his conqueror He carried in lattced litter and
there arose current story that he had been placed in
an iron Thus the empire Of the Ottomans that
had swept Asia and large part Of Europe
had earned the title Wrath of God" suddenly term
mated and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing characterzes the rule of Turk as It's
recuperative Often has it been seemingly over
thrown and swept from the face of the EARTH mme
diaely there arises again mighty power having the
same spirit its predecessor Mohammed T. the son of
BaJazet took the shattered fragments which father
had left and began the work of building up Ottoman
The Greeks said of him that he was "as perse
vering as camel" He was the youngest son, and