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  • An 1853 Formula for Ottoman Victory

  • Brison D. Gooch
  • Journal:
    Austrian History Yearbook / Volume 14 / January 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 February 2009, pp. 79-88
    Print publication:
    January 1978

  • Eighteen hundred and fifty-three was a fateful year in European diplomacy. The irritating and danger-laden Eastern Question once more moved out of the control of Europe's statesmen; and when the Ottoman and Russian empires locked in combat French and British leaders moved rapidly to form an alliance with the Turks. While objecting to implications by Tsar Nicholas that the government in Constantinople was “sick” and “dying,” the western nations testified to the validity of his remarks by their actions. Turkish moribundity was taken for granted in the next two years, and Turkey's allies were to treat her virtually as a satellite.