THE CHANGES OF A CENTURY.
The following table of dates shows that during a little more than a century England has been alternately the friend and foe of all the European powers on the Turkish question:— 1740 —Austria and Russia agree to divide Turkey. Great sea fight at Scio. 1770—England and Russia fight Turkey. 1790—Austria and Russia fight against Turkey, and Turkey loses two hundred thousand men. 1798 —England joins Turkey against France, and drives the French out of Egypt. 1807—Russia joinssTurkey againt Englnnd and almost destroys the English fleet in the Dardanelles under Sir John Duckworth. 1827 English and Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet at Navarino. 1828— Russia fights Turkey, and the sacred “ standard” is unfurled. 1833—Russia enters Constantinople, and makes an offensive and defensive alliance with Turkey. 1854—England, France, and Turkey subdue Russia in the Crimea.
1877—Russia defeats Turkey, ard this time England looks on.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1651, 5 June 1879, Page 4
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