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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. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX ABDUL HAMID DEPOSED Enver's Significant Words--A New Era--A Precipitated Coup--The Sultan's Attitude--The National Assembly Decide Upon Deposition--Abdul Hamid Informed-- He Pleads for His Life--His Cowardice--Mahomet V. --Abdul Hamid is Packed Off--Refreshing the Harem --The New Sultan Proclaimed--A Kindly Man-- Defying Abdul Hamid--Turkish Misrule--Fostering Religious Hatred--The Caliphate--The Jehad--Bribes for Reactionaries. ON the Sunday about fifty of...
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Excerpt from Forty Years in Constantinople: The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears, 1873-1915, With 16 Illustrations In writing my reminiscences of Life in Constantinople I have been under the disadvantage of depending almost entirely on memory. When I was compelled to leave Turkey in the middle of last December I was unable to bring away memoranda and books which would have enabled me to fix dates, to give correct spelling of names of persons and places, and would have recalled a hundred circumstances, which without such aids I am unable to relate with desirable exactitude. This is all I have to add by way of excuse for any inaccuracies and shortcomings in my book. I could have added many mor...
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