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  Calcutta Review, Volume 68, 1879 University of Calcutta., 1879 https://books.google.ca/books?id=oHpEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 ART.  II.—THE TURKS IN HUNGARY. The conflict which was lately raging in South-Eastern Europe between Christian and Musalman, was but one episode in the world-old struggle which has gone on unceasingly in the same reg, ions, and in the countries round about them, between the rival systems and the hostile nations of the East and West, between Ormuzd and Ahriman, between light and darkness, between liberty and slavery, between democracy and despotism, between a living hope in the present and a dead faith in the past.  From the siege of Troy to the siege of Plevna history repeats the varying tale of tbe strife between Europe and Asia — Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still and still destroying.   It is twenty-four centuries since, at Marathon, the tyrant of the Chersonese proved himself “Freedom's best and bravest friend,” and toda...

  Wars of the Turks with the Germans Introduction + The First War https://books.google.ca/books?id=vyowAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1024 https://books.google.ca/books?id=vyowAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1132 By Lieut.-General F. H. TYRRELL, late Indian Army. Hört nur! Einst jugten wir Husaren   Den Feind nach Herzenslust; Da schoss ein Hund von Janitscharen  Den Hauptman in die Brust. INTRODUCTION. TODAY the German Kaiser, whose predecessors on the Imperial throne claimed to represent the Western Cæsars, appears as the friend and well-wisher of the Monarch whom the Orientals style the Kaisar of Rún, or Cæsar of Rome, the inheritor of the titles and the realm of the Roman Emperors of the East by right of conquest. Today Germany has annexed the rôle of Protector of Turkey and Defender of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire formerly played by Great Britain on the stage of European politics, and the Vazirs at the Sublime Porte and the Secretaries of Yildiz Kiosk look for advice and ass...