Excerpt from Memories of the Baron De Tott, on the Turks and the Tartars, Vol. 3 This Standard, made of green filk fluff, is kept in the Treafury, from whenceit is never taken, but to go to war; it was, however, in agitation, to em ployitagainfi the rebels who dethroned Sultan Ach met: that Prince's Vilir, who was the firfi victim on which the malecontents difplayed their fury, without glutting it, gave that advice to his'mafier; and the revolters, who had no other principle of union than pillage, mull certainly have been dif perfed by the multitude, who would have refortcd to the facred banner. Another relic of Mahomet is preferved, alfo, in the Treafury; they dip this 'every year in water, which the Grand Seignior then orders to be difiributed, in phials, to the great men of the empire. Free-thinkers, for fueh there are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.