The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-11-25


n anople and Philippopolis fell before
IS the army of the Sultan, to be quick
u ~ followed by Nissa, the birthplace
y of Constantine, and the subsection
l. of Servia and Bulgaria. CONSTANT
?. nople was now isolated-east, west,
l. north and south, the whole country
e was in the hands of the Turks. And
9 now at last Christian Europe began
Il to take things seriously, for what
e was at first only distant murmur,
4 listened to one minute and forgot
g ten the next, had grown into roar,
and every courier from the east As
= he raced through the cities of the
s great plane of Europe brought ONLY
! tidings of burning cities and ruinei
= churches and thousands OF Chris
? tians, men, women and children, cal
| ried off into hopeless slavery.
!. Lazarus the Servian first took up
arms, and, trying to stem the tide |
led great army of Christians
against the Turks, but was severely |
defeated in the battle of Rosoyo |
/ (13S9), and five years later vas;
army of Christians of all Europe
( even from the far western sh pres OF
I ireland and the mountain valleys or
Norway and Sweden, who had vowed
great crusade aga INST the TURKS,
was defeated and literally annihi-
lated at the battle of Nicopols
$3.50 The power OF the Ottoman
seemed irresistible, the capture OF
Constantinople only a matter of
hatI To
breath and awaited the final on
slaught; and then a strange thing
happened Out of that land of mye-
terry and fable whence two centa-
ries before had swept the Mong6l
hordes driving the Seljuks before
them like chaff before the wind, AMI :
then with a derisive laugh and a v
hooking shake of their long swords v
riding back again int their wilder
ness, thence again through the s
shroud of the East came at this q
time another horde-the Tartars. |
With increditable swiftness they I
overran the whole OF Asia Minor; /
defeated the Sultan, by strange co {
incidence, at another battle of An I
CORA O4o2), and the Ottoman en-
pire seemed suddenly to come to an
end. But as with the Mongols so !
With the Observation-Disclosures the
) wealth and luxury of the west, they
T. rode back again, leaving behlnd
n them ruin and devastation, so tnat
e over the vast empire there brooded
II only the silence OF a great waste.
V Rut the world was to witness an
| other extraordinary revival, and I'M
l der the guidance of Muhammad l.
"Tbe Restorer" t1402-13), Turkey
| Quickly regafned her former power
land prestige Muhammad wagea
no wars: he was before all else
great statesman, and with what mas
been well described as "omfnous
foresight" he transferred the capital
of his dominion from Asia Minor 10
Europe, from Brusa to AdrianopoIls' q
and for 10 years pursued a policy
Of peace and consolidation; ana n
then. under Murad III G421-5l},
,ame another outburst. r
mighty champion of the Chris-
ian cause in Europe had arisen III L
he person of Hunyady. the White
knight" of Wallachia He defeatea a
The Ottoman at Hermanstadt (l442)
and again at Vasag and Nissa (1443l e
until at last Murad was glad TO con
clude 10 years peace and weary /
Of war" he abdicated in favor of MIS- '
son Muhammad. Ac soon, however, s
as the allies saw the old warrior !
with his armor off and his sword laid
aside, in shameless violation Of their
oath they raided the Ottoman do
minions, but with roar Murad was
upon them. In an Incredibly short
space of time he had all the reins
IF government in his hands again,
10000 veterans rallied round him.
and crossing the Bosphorus in fer
ries and on RATS, and carrying the
violated treaty on lance as his
standard. he fell upon the united |
! forces OF the enemy and defeated |
| them In the great batite OF Wanna
/ Nov 10, 1444. at which fell the |
king Of Poland and the Cardinal Jul
liam. who was leading the Frankish
Crusaders. And now they were in
sight of the end to which every OF
toman looked Their great father Os-
, man, looking across the Bosphorus|
, from the high places OF ms capitai
, Brusa, had dreamed OF the day
a when his children should reign at
> Constantinople, and now the dream
/, was to be realized, for in 1852 mu-
manned H. The Conqueror," len
+ an army against Constantinople ami
i, on May 10, 1853. the city was taken
. and with it the last remnant of the
once great Byzantine empire was
q extinguished The effect OF the fail
- of Constantinople upon the history
T. of Europe and indeed Of the world
- can scarcely be exaggerated-at the
time 1t seemed small thing, the In
y eyitable climax to a steadily pursued
a policy, and indeed the physical To-
70 suits OF the incident were nothing,
, but the dynamic power of the men-
q tai effect which resulted from D..