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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
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s compelled them to submitagain to Turkey. The condition of the people has been much improved byslow concessions wrung from the unwilling Sultan; but there have been ninedifferent rebellions in the island during the last century. All have been putdown with more or less of Turkish ferocity, at more or less expense of Chris-tian blood. The last one occurred in 1896. The Turks in Canea, the capitalof the island, celebrated a religious holiday by massacring a few Christians.The Cretans, who have discovered their own strength, rose in masses, retaliatedsavagely, and before troops could be marched against them, retreated to themountains. The Turkish forces have learned to hesitate before entering amongthose wild cliffs and gorges. A few detachments did, however, and their fearswere justified. A party of about two hundred were ambushed and slain. ThePowers interfered; and autonomy, that is the right to govern themselvesthough paying a money tribute to the Sultan, was promised to the Cretans.
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Greece—The Cretan Insurrection 283 This was an old pledge, often made but always evaded by the wily Turk. How-ever, a peace was patched up, and the Cretans returned to their homes. MoreTurkish troops were poured into the island; trouble flared up afresh, and theCretans called on their brethren of Greece for help. In February, 1897, a Greek fleet came to the island and transported severalthousand non-combatants, women, children, and aged men, into Greece forsafety. The resolute Cretans who remained, joined in more than one instanceby Greek soldiers, set out to sweep every Mahometan from the island. TheTurks, driven from the hills and the open country, concentrated in a few strongforts and towers. The insurgents attacked the capital itself. The Sultan clamored to the Powers for protection. He was not at warwith the Greeks; he was not allowed to go to war with them, yet here theywere helping his subjects to rebel against him. Such an appeal to supportregal authority has always strongly

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