Volume 2

Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the state of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the late war with Russia : with numerous anecdotes, facts, and observations, on the manners and customs of the Turks and Tartars ... / [François Tott].

  • François Baron de Tott
Date:
1786
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Credit: Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the state of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the late war with Russia : with numerous anecdotes, facts, and observations, on the manners and customs of the Turks and Tartars ... / [François Tott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    U E M D 1RS DF fwer, returned again, at the fame hour as before, but better informed. As this Ita- lian Phyfician (S) fpokeTurkifh butindiffer- ently, the QuelHons he was diredied to put to me were fent in writing; I alfo wrote back my anfwer, and this Correfpondence with the Grand Seignior, which procured me his confidence, was unknown to his Minifters, until his Highnefs required from me Services which could no longer be con- cealed. Emin-Pacha, without any talents necef- fary for the PofV, either of Vifir or General blinded by felf-love, believed he could pre- ferve the one without Danger, and fill the other with Glory, and finifh the War before^ it was well begun. His Army, continually increafed by the acceffion of Fanatick Muf- fulmen, foon became the moft dangerous Enemy of the Empire. The want of Pro- vifions, the diforder of this familhed Mul- titude, the Pillage which attended dif- tribution, and the Murders which enfued, an authority always weak, and always de- fpifed when the adminiftration is evidently vicious, mutually confpired to render an alteration
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