This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure 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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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ 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 British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Skene, James Henry; 1853. 2 vol.; 8 . 10106.g.18.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...