Khent

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Title:	Khent
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: Bayazid was besieged. Turks, Kurds, gypsies, vagabonds, and more than twenty thousand lawless freebooters, together with the regular Turkish army, surrounded the half ruined city. Its fires smoked like a wide spreading hearth. The houses of the Armenians seemed deserted. Some of the inhabitants had been put to the sword, and some had Khent Chapter One. 6 been taken captive. Only a small number had escaped, having been warned in time to enable them to flee across the frontier, into Persian territory, toward Macou. The citadel of Bayazid remained impregnable. A few Russian soldiers, together with the Turkish and Armenian militia were entrenched there and were awaiting their doom, with the fortitude of fatalists. The fort was encircled as if by a ring of iron which, as it contracted day by day, would inevitably strangle the hopeless prisoners. Communication with the outside world was entirely cut off. The siege began on the sixth day of June, 1877, and had continued twenty?three days. It was at the time when the conquering sword of Russia was suddenly bereft of fortune in its course. The local Mohammedan populace, which had at first accepted Russian control with such willingness, now rebelled and sided with the army of Ismail Pasha. General Lord Lucasoff, the commander of the division of Erivan, was then between Zeitekan and Tali?Baba, and he had fought gallantly against Moukhtar Pasha, whose outnumbered his own, five to one. He seemed not to have heard what had occured at Bayazid, which he had left under the protection of Commandant Ishdogvitch.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Khent, 1 -- Raffi, 1 -- AN Introduction By K. A. SARAFIAN, 2 -- Chapter I, 6 -- Chapter II, 12 -- Chapter III, 14 -- Chapter IV, 15 -- Chapter V, 19 -- Chapter VI, 20 -- Chapter VII, 22 -- Chapter VIII, 27 -- Chapter IX, 30 -- Chapter X, 34 -- Chapter XI, 37 -- Chapter XII, 41 -- Chapter XIII, 44 -- Chapter XIV, 48 -- Chapter XV, 52 -- Chapter XVI, 55 -- Chapter XVII, 58 -- Chapter XVIII, 60 -- Chapter XIX, 62 -- Chapter XX, 64 -- Chapter XXI, 68 -- Chapter XXII, 72 -- Chapter XXIII, 74 -- Chapter XXIV, 77 -- Chapter XXV, 81 -- Chapter XXVI, 86 -- Chapter XXVII, 91 -- Chapter XXVIII, 95 -- Chapter XXIX, 99 -- Chapter XXX, 106 -- Chapter XXXI, 110 -- Chapter XXXII, 114 -- Chapter XXXIII, 118 -- Chapter XXXIV, 121 -- Chapter XXXV, 125 -- Chapter XXXVI, 129 -- Chapter XXXVII, 133 -- Chapter XXXVIII, 137 -- Chapter XXXIX, 141 -- Chapter XL, 145 -- Chapter XLI, 149 -- Chapter XLII, 153 -- Chapter XLIII, 156