The Powers of Europe and Fall of Sebastopol
CHAPTER IX.
OMER PACHA.
Anecdote--His Birth--Reforms--Sultan Mahmud--Enlistment in the Turkish army--His application--Expeditions among the wild tribes --Appointed Generalissimo--Present high position--Domestic life --Marriage--Personal habits--Kossuth and Hungarian refugees--War on the Danube--Battle of Oltenitza, 268