For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of ❋ Unknown (2007)
This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.” ❋ William Safire (2003)
After the regular troops had been corrupted by faction, the caliphs, for the defence of their person and government, formed a militia; but the soldiers composing this force, not unfrequently foreigners, soon governed with a military despotism similar to that of the janizaries of Turkey, the ❋ M. Florian (N/A)
Tyrants have trembled, surrounded by whole armies of their janizaries. ❋ Luther Benson (N/A)
And between renegades, janizaries, and mothers of all nations, the blood of many a Turk must be physically anything rather than Turkish. ❋ Various (N/A)
I felt as though, strong as the yoke of these janizaries and their master looked, I had the death-warrant of imperialism in my pocket. ❋ Various (N/A)
The youthful stranger, concealing his name and family, relates the sad effects of his love for the favorite wife of the Bashaw of Liperto, and how by her aid he was enabled to escape from slavery, only to be pursued and about to be retaken by janizaries when rescued by Philidore. ❋ Whicher, George Frisbie (1915)
Lord Bentinck, as the mouthpiece of the protectionist party, launched forth in vehement invective against Sir Robert Peel, "his forty paid janizaries, and the seventy other members who, in supporting him, blazoned forth their own shame." ❋ Edwin Emerson (1914)
One hundred thousand prisoners of both sexes were taken; 30,000 Bosnian youths were compelled to join the janizaries. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Broussa (Prusa) in Bithynia under Ourkhan, moreover, they organized the regular foot-guards of janizaries against whom the undisciplined troops of Western knights could not hold out. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Eventually Lucaris was accused of treason against the sultan, and strangled by the janizaries in 1638. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Turks created a military zone along the Danube and the Dniester, established Turkish garrisons in important places, and compelled the princes to do personal homage to the sultan in Constantinople every three years, to bring (in addition to the tribute) presents in token of their submission, to perform military service, to maintain a troop of janizaries in their retinue, and to give relatives as hostages for their fidelity. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It consisted of 159 warships manned by 30,000 janizaries or spahis, and a large number of vessels were employed to carry the siege train. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Cephalonia, and captured a Turkish galleon manned by 200 janizaries and laden with precious merchandise; and within five years they had taken 50 Turkish vessels. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The janizaries, whose intervention often decided battles, numbered in 1520 only 12,000. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)
From the sack of Constantinople in 1453 to the siege of Vienna in 1529 and even to some extent long after that, the {449} majestic and terrible advance of the janizaries threatened the whole fabric of Europe. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)
