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Revolt of the Tartars
Flight of a Tartar Tribe
by
Thomas De Quincey
Silver Burdett and Co., edited by Alexander S. Twombly, 1897
[Revolt of the Tartars]
Converts to
Blackwood's Magazine
, 1837.
There is no great event in modern history, or, perhaps it may be said more broadly, none in all history from its earliest records, less generally known, or more striking to the imagination, than the flight eastwards of a principal Tartar nation across the boundless steppes of Asia in the latter half of the last century. The
terminus a quo
of this flight and the
terminus ad quem
are equally magnificent,—the mightiest of Christian thrones being the one, the mightiest of Pagan the other. And the grandeur of these two terminal objects is harmoniously supported by the romantic circumstances of the flight. In the abruptness of its commencement and the fierce velocity of its execution, we read an expression of the wild, barbaric character of those who conducted the movement. In the unity of purpose con . . .
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