A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14578047937)

Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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No time could have come to the Greeks more favorable than thisto strike for freedom, and the feverish excitement forbade longerdelay. After the Pandour rhief Vladimiresko by a rising in LittleWallachia, and Captain Karavias by a slaughter of the Turks, sur-prised in Galacz, had begun the struggle for freedom and faith,Alexander Ypsilanti displayed (Fig. 10), on March 7, at Jassy, theflag of the Hetairia, — a phoenix on a l)lack field,—and made theannouncement that a great power will protect the rising. Butupon die badly chosen soil of Moldavia and Wallachia, countrieshardly known to the Greeks, his words found no response: and theEmperor Alexander, upon whose aid he founded his adventuroushopes, was then at I.aibach. wholly under the influence of Metter- THE GREEK STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. nich, who was far removed from sympathy with his fellow-Christians.It concerned him solely and alone to keej) Turkey as a bulwarkagainst the farther advance of the Russians on the Lower Danube,
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Fi(,. 10. — Alcxaiiilcr Vp>il:iiiti luifuiiiii,^ tin ln-ottht Het.uiiaiu I i^^\ In^iopaiutinn; under the arcades of the gaideu ut tlie palace at Munich, li> Ictei Hess(1792-1871). From the lithograph by H. Köhler. and consequently he saw in the insurrection a peril to Austrian in-terests. With the feeling then entertained by Alexander, it was yPSILANTL 71 not difficult for him to persuade the emperor that the Greeks werenothing but rebels against their legitimate sovereign, who must be