Note 20 — Chapter III · RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND THE MINOR STATES OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE.
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The money to pay for those two battleships (the Sultan Osman and Reshadich, renamed the Agincourt and Erin) had been raised in Turkey by public subscription, and their retention was bitterly resented, the more so as Greece had just purchased two ships from the United States (post, c. viii.).