Identifier: storyofgreatestn02elli (find matches)
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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gh the city. One day some citizens saw the young prince with his own crown tossed aside, and a Frankish cap set in its place on his head. In a flame of passion, they rushed on the prince, and both he and his father were slain. A general uprising followed; and the Franks had to flee the city. They soon returned with their army and fleet. The city was captured a second time; much of it was burned, amid scenes of dreadful massacre ; and the Franks set up an empire of their own. The land was divided among the chiefs who had conquered it, the greater part of the ancient peninsula of Greece going to Otho de la Roche as Duke of Athens. This Duchy of Athens is famous in the romances of chivalry. For two hundred and fifty years Othos French knights held possession of the land, never uniting with the people, but ruling them as a subject race, and gallantly holding with the sword against all comers the land they had won. Theirs was one of the wealthiest courts in Europe, and it was certainly the gayest.
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Destruction of the Turkish fleet at Navarino
Greece—Capture of Constantinople 273 Dances, tournaments, and gorgeous festivals followed one upon the other as if in story-land. Knight-errants wandered thither from all countries, assured ofa welcome reception. Chaucer made the Duke of Athens the hero of one of his poems, and even our great Shakespeare chose him as the centre of a play. The Greek emperors soon won back Constantinople, though not Athens, from the Franks; but their rule was approaching its end. The Turks, whose career of conquest had been checked for a time by their wars with Asian nations, gathered again like vultures around their prey. In 1453, the warlike Sultan Mahomet II., finding himself with a most unusual peace on his hands, swore a great oath that the famous old city of Constantinople should be his capital or his tomb. Hearing this, its emperor, Constantine, made a similar oath himself, and began preparations for the defence. The one really fine story about this feeble, treacherous, old Byzantine empire is the story o

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