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East Prussia, Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, part of Hungary, Alsace, Serbia, Bosnia, northern France, south-western Austria-Hungary, and all of Belgium and Roumania, a territory amounting to one-fifth of the whole of Europe, were scarred and burned and devastated. It will be years and years before these countries recover from the effects of war's invasion.
Though Montenegro was severely handled for contumacy, the Serbs were able to cover their penultimate stage towards freedom by forcing in 1867 the withdrawal of the last Ottoman garrisons from their fortresses. Krete stood at bay for three years and all but won her liberty. Bosnia rose in arms, but divided against herself.
In the twelfth century the Catholic Dalmatians and Hungarians in vain tried to suppress it by force. In 1189 Kulin Ban, the ruler of Bosnia, himself turned Bogumil.
And the fate of Europe was sealed too. The Lamp of the Past illumines the Present. The summer of 1906 saw me no longer restricted to two months' travel, but free to go where I pleased for as long as I liked. I planned a great scheme for the study and comparison of the traditions and customs of all the Balkan races, and in August started for Bosnia.
Stefan Dushan, Serbia's greatest Tsar, was now at the height of his power. He succeeded in bringing the south of Bosnia under his control, but the then Ban Stefan Tvrtko joined with the Venetians and Hungarians against him. Nor was Bosnia as a whole added to Serbia. Tsar Dushan died in 1356 and Tvrtko at once reclaimed his lands, but held them only as a vassal state to Hungary.
'Then, Aribert, do you mean to convey to me that my detention in Ostend was contrived by the agents of the King of Bosnia? 'I do. 'With a view to stopping my negotiations with Sampson Levi, and so putting an end to the possibility of my marriage with Anna? Aribert nodded. 'You are a good friend to me, Aribert. You mean well. But you are mistaken. You have been worrying about nothing.
Latour, who had recently been back in Bosnia, had, they discovered, given information to the chief of police regarding a plot against the Queen, and they, the revolutionists, had condemned both him and his wife to death." "And the packet which they demanded of me?"
They walked on in silence. A detachment of soldiery, busy with that eternal military activity that seems to get nowhere, passed on a dog-trot. Peter looked at them critically. "Bosnians," he observed. "Raw, half-fed troops from Bosnia, nine out of ten of them tubercular. It's a rotten game, this military play of Europe. How's Jimmy?" "We left him very happy with your letter." Peter flushed.
"Suppose the enemy oppose fifty thousand to our ten, in Bosnia, there still remain to him twice as many as we can oppose to him." "Yes; but they are not commanded by a Duke of Lorraine," exclaimed Eugene, with enthusiasm. "A great general outweighs the disparity of numbers." A sad smile played about the duke's features. "I am not indispensable to Austria's success," said he.
'I prefer to say that I was offered a hundred thousand pounds if Prince Eugen should die within a reasonable time. 'And who were your damnable employers? 'That, honestly, I do not know. 'You know, I suppose, who paid you the first fifty thousand pounds, and who promised you the hundred thousand. 'Well, said Jules, 'I know vaguely. I know that he came via Vienna from em Bosnia.
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