Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unidentified recipient, "Monday," [n.d.].

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Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unidentified recipient, "Monday," [n.d.].

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Strangford, Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount, 1780-1855

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Lord Strangford was the British ambassador at Constantinople from August 1820 to October 1824. The recipient of his diplomatic reports, the Marquis of Londonderry (1778-1854), was the British ambassador at Vienna from 1814-1822. The first of the Strangford's missives deals with the centerpiece of the internal reforms implemented under Sultan Mahmud II, the modernization of the army along Western lines, which brought the Sultan into conflict with the Janissaries, the elite corps of the Turkish ar...