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Feldtzugen und andre begebenheit.

Matthaus Wickert

...Dated 27th September 1731, the manuscript is in a cursive, copperplate hand, and it was copied by Peter Christian Koch in 1731 from the original. In a preface addressed to his uncle, the writer declares that now there is peace, he...

Rede, so er gegen dem aller-Christlichsten Konig über den Turckischen Krieg zu Marsal den 31 Augusti lauffenden 1663, Jahre soll gehalten haben.

Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de

...A speech persuading Louis XIV to join European efforts at fighting the Turks, spuriously attributed to the most famous of seventeenth-century military leaders and actually a piece of German propaganda against French relations...

[Journal of Sir Charles Holloway, second-in-command of the British Military Mission to the Sublime Porte of Selim III, Sultan of Turkey, under the command of Brigadier General Koehler, the journal written daily commencing in London the 3rd December 1798, and ending in Constantinople, March 7th 1800].

Holloway, Charles, Sir

...A fascinating first-hand account of the progress of the British Military Mission to Turkey, the British Government's deputation consigned to intervene in the Ottoman Empire's war with Napoleon. Sir Charles Holloway was second-in-command...

Proceedings in Parga and the Ionian Islands : with a series of correspondence and other justificatory documents / by Lieut.-Colonel C.P. de Bosset, companion of the Bath, knight of the Guelphic order, and Honorary member of the Ionian Academy.

De Bosset, C. P. (Charles Philippe)

...De Bosset, a Swiss serving in the British Army, was sent to Parga in 1816 previous to the cession of the area to Ali Pasha. The preface includes an account of his dispute with Sir Thomas Maitland, the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian...

Turkey in Europe / by James Baker, M.A., lieutenant-colonel Auxiliary Forces, formerly 8th Hussars ; with two maps.

Baker, James, lieutenant-colonel

...James Baker visited the Ottoman Balkans two times in the 1870s with the aim of purchasing a farm, and spent three years there. His account is not limited to meetings with state officials. He mostly traversed the region on horseback...

Memoirs on the Ionian Islands, considered in a commerical, political and military point of view, including the life and character of Ali Pacha.

Frédéric Guillaume de Vaudoncourt

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William Walton

...De Vaudoncourt served as an artillery commander under Ali Pasha of Tepelene for a year with the aim of assisting him to regain control of the some of the Ionian Islands. He provides an excellent account of the region. The value of the book...

Exemplaria literarum quibus & christianissimus Galliarum Rex Franciscus : ab adversariorum maledictis defenditur, & controversiarũ causæ, ex quibus bella hodie inter ipsum & Carolum quintũ Imperatorem emersunt, explicantur unde ab utro potius fter ius æquúmque, lector prudens perfacilè deprehendet, Quarum catalogum, sequens pagella indicabit.

Jean Du Bellay

...First French edition: France's apology of its controversial Franco-Turkish alliance. On the eve of yet another war between the Habsburg and the Valois empires, François I sent a French delegation, led by Cardinal Jean du Bellay, to the Diet...

L'Europe par rapport à la Grèce et à la réformation de la Turquie / par M. de Pradt, ancien archevêque de Malines.

Pradt, M. de (Dominique Georges Frédéric)

...First edition of Pradt's defence of French interests in the Ottoman Empire and Greece. A second edition was published in 1828. The work justifies French foreign policy as regards the Ottoman Empire and the Greek war of independence, as well...