Great Assassin

English

Proper noun

the Great Assassin

  1. A title sarcastically given on September 24, 1896, by Gladstone to sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, in reference to the massacres of Ottoman Armenians.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Michael Partridge, Gladstone (2003), →ISBN, p. 235.
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