The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . of Europe. TheTreaty of Frankfort was signed on May 10, 1871, by which Alsaceand Lorraine were ceded back to Germany, while Belfort was restoredto France. A money indemnity of $1,000,000,000 in gold was paidto Germany for the costs of the war. The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78).—When Russia, in 1877,once more took up arms against Turkey, it was to renew a
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . of Europe. TheTreaty of Frankfort was signed on May 10, 1871, by which Alsaceand Lorraine were ceded back to Germany, while Belfort was restoredto France. A money indemnity of $1,000,000,000 in gold was paidto Germany for the costs of the war. The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78).—When Russia, in 1877,once more took up arms against Turkey, it was to renew a conflictrooted in Turkish misrule during four centuries, and it was linkedwith events leading to the war of 1914. Early in the fourteenth century the Ottoman Turks began aninvasion of southeastern Europe that gradually gained in strengthuntil it became a menace to the nations north of the Danube. Re-cruiting their ranks from conquered Christian States, whose strongestchildren were brought up as soldiers called Janissaries, they subduedthe Slavs south of the Balkans, overran Greece, occupied Syria, Ara-bia, and Egypt, invaded Himgary, and even laid siege to Vienna. In1453 they took possessibn of Constantinople, and the Church of Saint. 186 THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR 187 Sophia was turned into a Mohaniniedan mosque. The tide turnedwith the rise of Russia in the reign of Catheiine the Great. Aboutthe close of the eighteenth century the Russians wrested the Crimeafrom the Turks, gaining access to the Black Sea, pushed the Turkishfrontier back to the Dniester, and established that right to protect thesultans Christian subjects which has changed the whole complexionof affairs in the East. In 1812, Russia, backed by Napoleon, tookover Bessarabia, on the Black Sea. In 1828 Nicholas I, for causesarising from the sultans wrath following the battle of Navarino, de-clared war against the Porte, crossed the Balkans, and forced Moham-med II to sign the Treatj^ of Adrianople, September 14, 1829
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