summary of The Fire at Pera,1870
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The Alta California or Daily Alta California (often miswritten Alta Californian or Daily Alta Californian) was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper. It is principally famous for its relation to Mark Twain.
It was actually published on the London Times on June 7th, 1870.
Crimean War, a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
Elchi (elçi): a Turkish word for “ambassador”.
There is a typo in the original text, “Portuguese” written as “Portugese”.
There is a typo in the original text, “Ottoman” written as “Ottaman”.
Therapia: today “Tarabya”, a neighborhood in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, at the European side, near Bosphorus. The mentioned place, the British Embassy’s summer house was burnt to the ground in 1911 and was never rebuilt.
ᴏɴ ᴊᴜɴᴇ 5, 1870, ᴀ ʜᴏʀʀᴇɴᴅᴏᴜꜱ ꜰɪʀᴇ ɪɴ ᴘᴇʀᴀ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ɪꜱ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴀꜱ “ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘᴇʀᴀ” ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ, ᴅᴇꜱᴛʀᴏʏᴇᴅ ᴀ ʟᴀʀɢᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪꜱᴛʀɪᴄᴛ. ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ᴀʟꜱᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴀꜱ “ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏɴꜱᴛᴀɴᴛɪɴᴏᴘʟᴇ”. ... ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏᴏᴅᴇɴ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛʀᴏɴɢ ᴡɪɴᴅ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀᴇ ꜱᴘʀᴇᴀᴅ ʀᴀᴘɪᴅʟʏ.
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