Nelson's history of the war. Vol. XI., The struggle for the Dvina, and the great invasion of Serbia

CHAPTER LXXIX.

THE NEW SITUATION IN THE NEAR EAST.

Classical Parallels—The Situation at Gallipoli—The Policy of Evacuation—Sir Tan Hamilton succeeded by Sir Charles Monro—Withdrawal of Two Divisions from Gallipoli—The German Threat against Egypt—The Russian Army of the Caucasus—Its Work during the Summer—The Battle of Dilman—The New Armenian Massacres—Germany declines Responsibility—Her Guilt—German Intrigues in Northern Persia—Difficulties of a Russian Advance in Transcaucasia —The Prospects of a Russian Flank Attack on BulgariaThe Advance into Bulgaria from the ZAgean—Difficulties of the Allied Offensive—The Key of the Situation—British Squadron shells Dedeagatch—Trafalgar Day.

may be read in the ninth book of Herodotus,

an Athenian expedition sailed to the Dardanelles and laid siege to the town of Sestos, which was in Persian hands. The place was the strongest position in the peninsula, and during the hot summer months it resisted stoutly. Autumn came, and the Athenians began to murmur, but their leader Xanthippus declared that there could be no return till Athens recalled her army or Sestos fell. Then one morning the enemy disappeared. The garrison had been in desperate straits for supplies, the Persian Artayctes drew off his men by night, and the gates of Sestos were opened to the conquerors. Such was

AS In the victories of Platea and Mycale, as