tailieunhanh - Ali Pacha

The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the Continent; like mummies which preserve but the semblance of life, was gradually tumbling to pieces, and getting parcelled out amongst bold adventurers who skirmished over its ruins. | Ali Pacha Dumas Alexandre Published 1840 Categorie s Non-Fiction History Source http 1 About Dumas Alexandre Dumas père born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie July 24 1802 - December 5 1870 was a French writer best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask were serialized and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo 1845 The Three Musketeers 1844 The Man in the Iron Mask 1850 Twenty Years After 1845 The Borgias 1840 Ten Years Later 1848 The Vicomte of Bragelonne 1847 Louise de la Valliere 1849 The Black Tulip 1850 Murat 1840 Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Chapter 1 The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms the ancient eastern part of the Continent like mummies which preserve but the semblance of life was gradually tumbling to pieces and getting parcelled out amongst bold adventurers who skirmished over its ruins. Without mentioning local revolts which produced only short-lived struggles and trifling changes of administration such as that of Djezzar Pacha who refused to pay tribute because he thought himself impregnable in his citadel of Saint-Jean-d Acre or that of Passevend-Oglou Pacha who planted himself on the walls of Widdin as defender of the Janissaries against the institution of the regular militia decreed by Sultan Selim at Stamboul there were wider spread rebellions which attacked the constitution of