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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by William Mackenzie, 1878, London
The second in two volumes covering the 1806-1812 war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. This volume goes from 1810 to 1812. Highly illustrated with approximatley 15 battle and theater maps. This is the ONLY work in the English language on this campaign.
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after thei...