History of the Greek Revolution (V. 1) Unknown -
by Thomas Gordon
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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: APPENDIX BOOK I.?CHAP. I. No. I. ? Copy of a Memorial addressed to the Grand Arch, translated from the Greek, August Arch, On the 18th of the present month, I was initiated into the Hetoeria, by Basil Varlaam; my having delayed so long is owing to the Apostles, who, knowing that I was in Ali Pasha's service, took me for a Turkish partisan. In reply to that charge, I content myself with sending you copies of the attestations I received for my service in Russia; whence you will perceive, that if I spent my money and shed my blood, it was for the liberty of my dear country. Although I have no clear idea of the intentions of this Society, (the Apostles having purposely kept me in ignorance, ) yet I partly comprehend what is to follow, and that the commencement is to be in Moldavia and Wallachia. On this subject I remark, that those provinces have indeed a great number of inhabitants, but incapable of carrying anna, if we except the people of the mountains, and the Fandours of Little Wallachia; the nobility is wavering, inconstant, fond of tyranny, and detests the Greeks, because for more than a century they have obeyed princes of that nation. However, if the Arch employs persons well acquainted witli the countries, I am in hopes that our Society will make progress there, and then we need not fear any change in their sentiments. The noblesse of Wallachia is better inclined to liberty than that of Moldavia. Such of our nation as are to be found in the two provinces, are mostly Arendasb.es, accustomed to handle arms, in order to defend themselves against robbers. The best soldiers are a few Athenians, Acarnanians, Thessalians, Macedonians, Epirotes, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Servians; their number hardly amounts to four thousand, and they are infected with many vices. Let...
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- Title History of the Greek Revolution (V. 1)
- Author Thomas Gordon
- Binding unknown
- Pages 264
- Publisher General Books LLC
- Date 06-Aug-2
- ISBN 9781459082397
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