Identifier: decisivebattless00knox (find matches)
Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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horses, sheep,goats, and other animals were captured, and a thousand ormore people were carried into slavery. The Persian government made very little provisionfor the protection of its people. The Persian troops werein the cities and large towns, which the Turcomans neverattacked, and as there was no telegraph through the coun-try, the raiders almost invariably got to a safe distancebefore a pursuit could be started. Very often the Persianofficials on the frontier connived at the raids, and thepeople were forced to rely upon themselves for protection,which was almost wholly of a defensive character. Their villages are built of mud, and are practically forts.The walls are from twenty to thirty feet thick, and aboutforty in height; they form a quadrangle, or circle, wherecattle can be driven at night, and there is only a singledoor-way, too low to permit the passage of a man onhorseback. The raiders never stop to besiege a place; allt^;,r work :_s done by a sudden dash, and the Turcoman
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