Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; With Notices of the Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of Those Countries (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; With Notices of the Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of Those Countries

Above all points of resemblance to us, they have clung to their independence with anglo-saxon tenacity; and shall we, when peace shall be made, allow their rude and gigantic enemy again to surround them with her liberated forces, till she exterminate them by brute power, and no memorial be left of unsuccessful virtue save that which history will assuredly record in their favour?

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