The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century - a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and (14762215531)

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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation

Year: 1900 (1900s)

Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942

Subjects: World history

Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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treat! when they had thought to surge like a tidal wave over Turkishterritory! when they had dreamed of marching amid the cheers and prayers ofthe liberated populations beyond the border! The mercurial Greeks despaired;they were beaten from that moment. A sudden panic seized them on the gloomy backward march. It wasnight; some one cried out that the Turkish cavalry were coming, and withoutwaiting to learn the truth, the men fled wildly through the darkness. Manyin their blind terror threw away their arms. Instead of halting at Larissa, theGreek forces were not again rallied into anything resembling order until theywere twenty miles further south, at Pharsala and the seaport town of Volo. The inhabitants of Larissa and the surrounding district of Thessaly wereleft with far greater cause for fear than the fleeing troops. They had thoughtthemselves secure in the rear of their army, but they now found themselvesbetween the two foes, left to the mercy of the unspeakable Turk. What K^s^*--^

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Greece—The War with Turkey 283 they could carry of their household goods they took with them, the rest theyleft, and hurried southward in bewildered pitiable crowds, questioning every-body, helping to block the roads and add to the terrifying confusion. Tnc Greeks began to think of peace. This was not the kind of war theybad wanted. The European governments held sternly aloof. Private individ- .uals in many lands had expressed and continued to express sympathy with theGreek cause, and the Greeks not unnaturally confused this with governmentalsympathy. A party of Red Cross nurses, women who devote themselves totending the wounded on the battlefield and in the hospital, came out from Eng-land. They were received in Athens with an extravagant delight, which seemedto see behind them every regiment and excry battleship of the British Empire. Meanwhile, the Turks were advancing in leisurely fashion. Before any-thing definite came of the peace talk, they had driven the disorganized Greeksf

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