The city was fired ; and. in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the general... A Compend of History: From the Earliest Times - Page 110by Samuel Whelpley - 1856Full view - About this book
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...in the neighboring seas, and learning these events, landed a force on the island of fifteen thousand men. There was nothing to resist such an army. These...; and. in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...indiscriminate massacre. The city was fired ; and, in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood...to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and sent... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - History - 1828 - 526 pages
...happened to be in the neighboring seas, and learning these events, landed a force on the island of 15,000 men. There was nothing to resist such an army. These...rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood an J ashes. The details are too shocking to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, saved from... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...arbitrary pretensions, sustained by unprecedented power. In four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood...to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and sent... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...force on the island of 15,000 men. There was nothing to resist such an army. These troops immedi ately entered the city, and began an indiscriminate massacre....fired; and, in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...pretensions, sustained by unprecedented SO power. In four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood...to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the 35 general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 524 pages
...happened to be in the neighbouring seas, and learning these events, landed a force on the island of 15,000 men. There was nothing to resist such an army. These...fired; and, in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...in the neighboring seas, and learning these events, landed a force on the island of fifteen thousand men. There was nothing to resist such an army. These...; and, in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking lo... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...pretensions, sustained by unprecedented 30 power. In four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood...to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the 35 general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...sustained by unprecedented 80 power. In four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, ren• dered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes....to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the 85 general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and... | |
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