This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...from the latter of whom the national appellation of Osmanlis, or Ottomans, is derived. During three centuries they established, step by step, an empire embracing extensive dominions in Europe as well as in Asia. In 1453, they took Constantinople, and in 1516 the Mameluke sultanship of Egypt was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...from the latter of whom the national appellation of Osmanlis, or Ottomans, is derived. During three centuries they established, step by step, an empire embracing extensive dominions in Europe as well as in Asia. In 1453, they took Constantinople, and in 1516 the Mameluke sultanship of Egypt was destroyed, and that country with Syria and Palestine became subject to Selim, sultan of Turkey. From that period till within a few months, the Holy Land has formed a portion of the Ottoman empire, to which indeed it still nominally belongs. During the wars which resulted from the French Revolution, the attention of the world was for a time attracted to Palestine, by the presence there of that mighty genius, who, himself the child of the Revolution, inherited its strength, its brilliancy, and its transientness. Bonaparte, at that period in the service of the Directory, had subdued lower Egypt; and, meditating the conquest of the entire east, marched, in the spring of 1799, through the Idumsan desert into Palestine. Jaffa was subdued, and the fame of the conqueror stained by the slaughter of twelve hundred prisoners, an act which, though dictated by policy, and possibly consistent with usages which modern warfare has generally relinquished, can never be regarded by unprejudiced thinkers, with other feelings than those of detestation. Advancing on Acre, the French were bravely repelled by the combined forces of the English under Sir Sidney Smith, and the Turks under Achmet Pasha, surnamed from his cruelty, Djezzar, or the butcher. On the plain of Esdraelon, where armies of so many different nations had encamped or fought, the Turks were defeated by Bonaparte, Kleber, and Murat; but the repulse from Acre induced the commander to return to Egypt. Within...
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