In War 



Hellas in the Turkish army of Edhem 

 Pasha than in the soldiers of King 

 George, who fled before them three 

 years ago." King George himself is 

 only an alien placed on the Grecian 

 throne to suit the convenience of the 

 outside powers, which to the ancient 

 Greeks were merely factions of bar- 

 barians. 



" Earth, render back from out thy breast 

 A remnant of our Spartan dead ! 

 Of the three hundred grant but three 

 To make a new Thermopylae I " 



But there were not even three not 

 even one "to make another Mara- 

 thon/' and the Turkish troops swept 

 over the historic country with no other 

 hindrance than the effortless deprecation 

 of Christendom. 



Why did Rome fall? It was not 

 because untrained hordes were stronger 

 than disciplined legions. It was not 



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