Chapter 1
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Source: Preservation of American Hellenic History (PAHH)
Published on myIslam.dk : June 19, 2013
Mohammedanism has been propagated by the sword and by violence ever since it first appeared as the great enemy of Christianity, as I shall show in a later chapter of this book.
It has been left to the Turk, however, in more recent years, to carry on the ferocious traditions of his creed, and to distinguish himself by excesses which have never been equaled by any of the tribes enrolled under the banner of the Prophet, either in ancient or in modern times.
The following is a partial list of Turkish massacres from 1822 up till 1904:
Year | Location | Ethnicity | Number |
---|---|---|---|
1822 | Chios | Greeks | 50,000 |
1823 | Missolongi | Greeks | 8,750 |
1826 | Constantinople | Jannisaries | 25,000 |
1850 | Mosul | Assyrians | 10,000 |
1860 | Lebanon | Maronites | 12,000 |
1876 | Bulgaria | Bulgarians | 14,700 |
1877 | Bayazid | Armenians | 1,400 |
1879 | Alashguerd | Armenians | 1,250 |
1881 | Alexandria | Christians | 2,000 |
1892 | Mosul | Yezidies | 3,500 |
1894 | Sassun | Armenians | 12,000 |
1895-96 | Armenia | Armenians | 150,000 |
1896 | Constantinople | Armenians | 9,570 |
1896 | Van | Armenians | 8,000 |
1903-04 | Macedonia | Macedonians | 14,667 |
1904 | Sassun | Armenians | 5,640 |
Total | 328,477 |
To this must be added the massacre in the province of Adana in 1909, of thirty thousand Armenians
So imminent and ever-present was the peril, and so fresh the memory of these dire events in the minds of the non-Mussulman subjects of the sultan, that illiterate Christian mothers had fallen into the habit of dating events as so many years before or after "such and such a massacre."

George Horton
George Horton (1859–1942) was a member of the US diplomatic corps who held several consular offices, in Greece and the Ottoman Empire, in late 19th century and early 20th century. Horton initially arrived in Greece in 1893 and left from Greece 30 years later in 1924. During two different periods he was the US Consul and US Consul general to Smyrna, known as Izmir today, the first time between 1911-1917 (till the cessation of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Ottoman Empire during the First World War) and the second time between 1919–1922, during Greek administration of the city in the course of the Greco-Turkish War. The Greek administration of Smyrna was appointed by the Allied Powers following Turkey's defeat in World War I and the seizure of Smyrna. (Source: Wikipedia)
What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
REVELATIONS, I:11