The Cabinet History of England, Vol. 21

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Excerpt from The Cabinet History of England, Vol. 21: Being an Abridgment, by the Author, of the Chapters Entitled "Civil and Military History" In "the Pictorial History of England, " With a Continuation to the Present Time Tn: war which the ambition of the tzarina Catherine had kindled in the East, had spread from the Black Sea to the Baltic, and had been far from obtainin the grand results, and tthe speedy termination which t e empress had hoped for in first commencing hostilities against the sultan. The Turkish empire in Europe, which had ap peered in her eyes so weak and crazy as merely to re quire ashake to bring it to the ground, had withstood three campaigns, and resisted for two years the united efforts of two great powers, and that, too, without an efficient ally of an kind. It must, however, be ad witted that the Tur s were greatly indebted to the stu pidit of the Russians and Austrians. Nothing else coul have saved Constantino le even at this riod. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.