The Crimea: Its Ancient and Modern History; The Khans, the Sultans (Classic Reprint)

In dismissing this volume I desire to remark that it has been written under circumstances unfavourable to literary exactness. It formed no part of my object to detail the events of the present war, or to criticise its conduct. I have merely sought to illustrate its scenes, and give the general annals of a peninsula, which, after being famous in by-gone times, and lapsing into obscurity, has been suddenly raised to lasting celebrity, as the site specially selected by theW estern Powers on which to fight the battle with Bussia. The case is unique in history, of the armies of five great sovereigns being concentrated in such a narrow space those of a Queen, anE mperor, aK ing, aS ultan, and aC zar belonging to the four leading religious professions of Europe, the Protestant, Boman Catholic, Mohammedan, and Busso-G reek commimions. Some passages from contributions by the writers to the public journals have been made use of in the following pages.
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