Note 24 — Chapter XIV · TCHUKOUR. DURGÈLLER. ALATA. KHADEM.
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Essaad Pasha married a niece of Sultan Abd-el-Aziz, was Grand Vizier for a short period, and was then sent as Governor of Syria to Damascus. He died there very suddenly in 1876, in the very council room. As usually happens in such cases, there were suspicions, probably groundless, of poison.