Turkey, Greece, and Malta
Subtitle: Volume 2
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: October 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781402156274
Subjects: Slade,Turkey,Greece,Malta,Slade,Sir,Adolphus,Turkish,army,navy,Russi Russia,Circassia,Crimea,English,1834-36,policy,condition,Levant,Persia,England,Sevastopol; History / Europe / General
First sentence: THE certain effect of the accumulation of faults mentioned in the preceding chapter-each a preparatory cause of defeat-showed itself at the fatal and shameful battles of Homs and Koniah, which reduced the Ottoman Porte, for the first time since its existence, to solicit assistance from a Christian power, and-excess of humiliation-to accept of it from its bitterest foe.