The Ottoman Empire Quotes

“one cannon, named “Basilica,” was 27 feet long and could fire a projectile weighing over 600 pounds for over a mile.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“However, no-one had taken into account the existence of a new weapon which had been little used on the battlefield before”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“This led directly to the creation of the modern, secular nation state of Turkey with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as its president.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“We have destroyed the former by the sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation.” —Enver Pasha”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by the sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation.” —Enver Pasha”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“. In the end, this refusal to embrace much-needed change doomed the Ottoman Empire.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The 11 sultans who followed, his direct descendants, continued to expand the empire until, 250 years later,”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“This mighty empire can be traced back directly to one man, Osman,”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“the different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions which it contained began to pull in different directions”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“as the empire grew beyond the capacity of effective rule by any single man,”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“and Russia was now under the control of the communists.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, had been deposed and then murdered during the Russian Revolution in 1917,”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“After more than 600 years, the Ottoman Empire, one of the longest lasting and at one time most powerful empires in the world,”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The Ottoman sultanate was abolished, and the last sultan, Abdulmejid II, left for exile on a British battleship.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“Specifically, they wanted an end to the rule of the sultans and the introduction of some level of democracy”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“led to the creation in 1865 of a significant and influential secret society—the Young Ottomans.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“directly to the states of Moldavia and Wallachia, previously Ottoman vassals, becoming independent.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“directly to the states of Moldavia and Wallachia, previously Ottoman vassals, becoming independent”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye, a form of government where absolute power was devolved from the sultan.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness.” —Pierre Bosquet”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The Crimean War and the Young Ottomans”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“was finally disbanded. A sultan of the Ottoman Empire would never again be deposed by a Janissary revolt”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“Janissary leaders were executed, and the Janissary Corps itself”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“Selim’s successor, Mustafa IV, lasted only one year before he too was deposed and executed.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“by May 1807, Selim III was deposed and subsequently murdered during yet another Janissary revolt.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“smashed into the Ottoman lines.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The battle included the largest known cavalry charge, where more than 18,000 mounted Christian knights”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“where the Ottoman forces met Hapsburg and Polish troops supported by forces from the Holy Roman Empire.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“This culminated in the Battle of Vienna on September 12, 1683”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End

“The worst military defeat for the Ottoman Empire came in the Great Turkish War which raged in Europe from 1683 to 1699.”
― Hourly History, The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End