CHAPTER X

Turkey the "Sick Man" of Europe

The Sultan's Empire in 1800--Revolts in Her Dependencies--Greece Gains Her Freedom--The Sympathy of the Christian World--Russian Threats--The Crimean War and its Heroes--The War of 1877--The Armenian Massacres--The Nations Warn off Russia--War in Crete and Greece in 1897--The Tottering Nation of to-day--The "Sick Man" 156