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John Sandes. Under the Red Crescent
Under the Red Crescent
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. FROM MELBOURNE TO SOFIA
CHAPTER II. THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR
CHAPTER III. THE IMMINENCE OF WAR
CHAPTER IV. FROM WIDDIN TO PLEVNA
CHAPTER V. THE FIRST BATTLE OF PLEVNA
CHAPTER VI. THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND BATTLES
CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF PLEVNA (JULY 30)
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIASCOS OF PELISCHAT AND LOVTCHA
CHAPTER IX. THE THIRD BATTLE OF PLEVNA
CHAPTER X. THE INVESTMENT OF PLEVNA
CHAPTER XI. THE HORRORS OF THE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XII. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO ERZEROUM
CHAPTER XIII. A BELEAGUERED CITY
CHAPTER XIV. THE SURRENDER OF ERZEROUM
Chapter XV. THE END OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION
INDEX
Footnotes:
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Charles S. Ryan, John Sandes
Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878
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Next morning we saw Stamboul rising out of the Bosphorus, and my dreams were at last fulfilled. Fresh, as one might say, from Melbourne, which forty years before was a camping-ground for blacks, I saw before me in this gorgeous vision of mosques and minarets, dark green cypress groves, towers of gleaming marble, and gilded pinnacles of the far Seraglio, a city of unknown antiquity. The story goes that, more than three hundred years before the Christian era, the Athenians, inspired by the burning eloquence of Demosthenes, fought to defend it against Philip of Macedon. One dark night, so the veracious historians of that period tell us, the Macedonians were on the point of carrying the city by assault, when a shining crescent appeared in the sky, disclosed the creeping forms of the enemy, and enabled the beleaguered forces to repel the attack with such vigour that the Macedonians raised the siege and retired. Such was the origin of the crescent which figures on old Byzantine coins, and when the Osmanlis captured Constantinople they adopted it as their national device. It is a pretty story, and well—"si non é vero é ben trovato." I saw before me a city which had already been besieged twenty-four times since its foundation and captured six times. Among others, Persians, Spartans, Athenians, Romans, Avars, Arabs, Russians, Crusaders, and Greeks had besieged it before it fell at last under the terrific assault of the forces of Mahomed II. in 1453. I landed at Galata, the port of Pera, which is separated from Stamboul proper by the Golden Horn, and went straight up to Misserie's Hotel, which is to Constantinople what Shepheard's Hotel is to Cairo, one of the famous hostelries of the world.
Next day we reported ourselves at the War Office. We were shown into a room where four or five old pashas were sitting cross-legged on divans, and we handed in our credentials. We presented our respects through the medium of an interpreter, and I was told to leave my address and hold myself in readiness for active service at once in the Servian war, which had then been going on for about six weeks.
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