

riiuto and cui.\ii.i^lii l.y L iidei \vuuJ\ Lnacrw.u, 



TO TH15 DEFENSE OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE RELIGION OF THEIR FATHERS 



Turkish recruits, reservists, and regular soldiers in a cufa (a type of boat that the 

 ancient Babylonians used) crossing the River Tigris from Bagdad, in the first step of their 

 long journey across 1,200 miles of desert sand, towards Constantinople, to help defend the 

 capital of the Turkish Empire against Christianity in the last stand of the Ottoman in 

 Europe. 



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