Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

The time has come for every citizen to deliberately accept or repudiate his share of the joint indirect responsibility for a series of the hugest and foulest crimes that have ev...

It does not lie within the plan of this volume to review at any length the history of Turkey, or to sketch the lives of the Sultans who have reigned during the century; it will...

Our self-imposed task to voice as clearly and strongly as we could the History and Horrors of Armenia under the Curse of Islam is nearly finished. For many weeks the fires have...

As at one time Athens "was the Eye of Greece and Mother of the Arts" so both to pious Jew and humble Christian, Jerusalem has ever been the "City of God," the "Joy of the Whole...

From Jerusalem the reader must now transport himself beyond the Caspian Sea eastward if he would visit the early home of the Turks or Turcomans, or Turkmans, against which the f...

That the Powers of Europe, having their fleets lying at anchor in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas within a day's sail of Constantinople, should stand by and permit the Sult...

The reader will please turn aside for awhile to consider the rise of an alien religion which was destined to change the map of Europe and the course of history for many centurie...

We turn back a single leaf of history in beginning this chapter on the Russo-Turkish War,--and stand at the opening of the year 1876. As the nations of Europe faced the question...

Turkish Armenia, the northwestern division of Kurdestan, is a great plateau of nearly sixty thousand square miles, bounded on the north by the Russian frontier, by Persia on the...

In the following pages have been gathered a few very important papers that will be of permanent value, but necessarily the limits are very narrow, and only a sketch of the benef...

With the death of Tamerlane all his further designs were lost; his armies were disbanded; China was saved; and fourteen years after his decease, the most powerful of his childre...

We must pass over in silence a period of four hundred years in the history of the Ottoman Empire to open its blood-stained pages in our own era at the narrative of the Bulgarian...

"Gather you, gather you angels of God Chivalry, Justice and Truth: Come, for the earth has grown cursed and old Come down and renew us her youth! Freedom, self-sacrifice, mercy...

Much earnest and faithful missionary work had been done in the cities and towns of the various Armenian provinces, before the storm of desolation swept over them. Evangelistic,...

In presenting an account of the relief work done in Armenia, the order in time has been observed in a very great degree in order that as the distress and misery increased the re...

The Mohammedan populace in all the large cities of Asia Minor were deliberately inflamed against the Armenians by lying rumors of intended attacks on the mosques. Soon there was...

The Harpoot massacre was another butchery carried out under orders. Sixty Christians fled to a church in the vain hope that its walls would furnish them a shelter against those...

In Europe and America there is very little, if any, exact knowledge of what Mohammedanism means and who the Turks are. The Christian subjects of Turkey alone have the unfortunat...

Massacre of Armenians by Police, Softas and Kurds Frontispiece. Great and Little Ararat from the Northeast 19 Armenian Types and Costumes 38 Monastic Rock Chambers at Gueremeh 5...

Four Centuries of Misrule--Chios, 40,000 Slain--Christians in Turkey Persecuted--Russia Demands their Protection--France and England against Russia--Czar's Army Crosses into Mol...

Ottoman Empire Rising--Danger to Europe--Mohammed II. the Conqueror--Fortress Built at Gallipoli--Emperor Alarmed-- Europe Indifferent--First Great Siege with Artillery--Seven W...

A Martyr Nation--Need of a Voice--Historical Annals at Nineveh--Abgar's Letter to Jesus of Nazareth--Acceptance of Christianity--Council of Nice--Persian Conquests--Bible Transl...

The Turcomans--Seljuks--Persia Conquered--Armenia Wasted-- 140,000 Slain--Ani with 1,001 Churches Falls--Awful Slaughter --Asia Minor Ravaged--Emperor of Constantinople Defeated...

Origin--Jerusalem Captured by the Turks--Peter the Hermit-- Pope Urban--Crusade of the Mob--Walter the Penniless--Battle of Nicomedia--300,000 Perished in all--Crusade of the Ki...