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VGW(HU.771.004
10 Jan 1771:13 (1015)
A letter from Scanderoon brings the following account. It
is well known over Europe that the Bassa, Governour of
Egypt, having paid very little regard to the orders of the
Turkish court, . . . [raised troops, marched towards Arabia]
A band of Janizarries, which he had persuaded to follow him,
when they came to the edge of the desert, began to mutiny.
This he had forseen, and for this he had prepared. He
immediately assembled the rest of the army round them, and
seizing upon those officers who had been most refractory
dismissed them with their beards shaven and their robes cut
short, a punishment equivalent to that of being drummed out
of a regiment in European service. . .
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