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Excerpt from The History of the Italian-Turkish War, September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912 This history was compiled from the semi-official publications of the Naval Ministries of Germany, Italy and Austria, viz.: Marine Rundschau, Rivista Marittima, and Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens, corroborated by the facts as described in other foreign publications such as Le Yacht, the British Army and Navy weeklies, the London Illustrated News and Graphic, besides Ueberall, the organ of the German navy league. In this compilation conflicting or doubtful statements were eliminated and only such details that are thoroughly reliable are given. The writer served for a period of three years and nine months as Naval Attach to the United States Embassies in Berlin, Borne and Vienna, and he knows that these semi-official publications are thoroughly reliable and therefore he claims that the facts herein recorded are true. The account was primarily compiled for the information of the United States Navy and was submitted by the writer to the Board of Control of the Naval Institute for revision. This was thereupon published in a series of four articles in the current quarterly Proceedings of the Naval Institute for June, September and December, 1912, and March, 1913. The type of these articles was distributed and in order to preserve the data in book form the four series of articles were reprinted in a limited edition for general circulation. The book contains the four articles that were published with considerable additional data, such as the complete account of the defences of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus taken from the Journal of the Royal Artillery for January, 1913, embodying the translation from the Russian Artillery Journal by Lieutenant J. K. L. Fitzwilliams, Royal Horse Artillery on The Coast Defences of Turkey. The Honorable Philander Knox, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C., also kindly sent the writer the full text of the Treaty of Peace of Lausanne with the decree of the King of Italy and the Firman of the Sultan of Turkey. This treaty and accompanying documents are embodied in the appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.