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edition identification: ++++ The Frontier Lands Of The Christian
And The Turk: Comprising Travels In The Regions Of The Lower Danube
In 1850 And 1851, Volume 1; The Frontier Lands Of The Christian And
The Turk: Comprising Travels In The Regions Of The Lower Danube In
1850 And 1851; James Henry Skene James Henry Skene Bentley, 1853
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++++ Liber Pluscardensis, Volume 1; Historians Of Scotland; Liber
Pluscardensis; Maurice Buchanan Maurice Buchanan, Felix James Henry
Skene Felix James Henry Skene W. Paterson, 1877 History; Europe;
Great Britain; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / General;
Scotland
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Title: The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk; comprising
travels in the regions of the Lower Danube in 1850 and 1851. By a
British Resident of twenty years in the East i.e. J. H.
Skene].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
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James Henry; 1853. 2 vol.; 8 . 10106.g.18.
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III. THE TURKISH CONTINGENT. A Story is told of a Scotch farmer,
who, while expressing one day to his laird the interest with which
he read the news from the Crimea in the newspapers, which at the
same time discussed at great length the other burning question of
the day, confessed that he was somewhat puzzled to distinguish
between the Turkish Contingent and the Immaculate Conception. The
formation of this Turkish Contingent, which puzzled the poor farmer
so sorely, was a happy thought of Lord Stratford's, who saw how
best to make use of the excellent raw material of courage and
discipline which are undoubtedly characteristic of the Turkish
soldier. The Turkish troops were so badly fed and so irregularly
paid, that they used to come about the English and French camps,
begging for scraps of food. When English sailors went from their
ships to the Naval Brigade at the front, they would capture three
Turkish soldiers apiece, ride on the shoulders ofone, and drive the
others before them with a long whip, to relieve the first when he
should get tired. The poor Turks would then get a few biscuits as
payment of their eight miles' stage, and return to Balaclava
perfectly satisfied. They were so inefficiently officered, that
when Lord Raglan obtained from Omar Pasha four battalions of them
to hold the four redoubts which he constructed to strengthen the
lines above Balaclava, their officers gave the order to fly before
the attack of the Russian General, Liprandi, who thus took the
sixteen English field-pieces entrusted to them. The ' Great Elchi'
conceived the idea of taking twenty-five thousand men of the best
Turkish troops into British pay, under British officers, above the
rank of major, leaving the Turkish majors, captains, and subalterns
unchanged. This plan proved perfectly...
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