Note 103 — Chapter V · THE CRADLE OF THE OSMANLIS
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No one is more familiar with the Ottoman people or their history than Professor William Ramsay who does not hesitate to declare: “It has almost always been by the strength and skill of Christian allies that the Turks have vanquished the Christians:
But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break their shield, however broad.”
Impressions of Turkey During Twelve Years Wandering, p. 271 et seq. (London, 1897).
“The Christians were crushed by the arts and arms of their own brethren; Constantinople fell, not before the Saracen or the Turk but before warriors of Greek and Slavonic blood.” Op. cit., p. 272.