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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 21, 2017.
Depicted Content19th-Century World Affairs
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WHICH IS THE INFIDEL? "God preserve thee, Sultan, long; Ever keep thee from all woes; May thy State and thee be strong; To dismay and resist thy foes" (Song of welcome to the Infidel Sultan) SULTAN: (sotto voce to Grand Vizier). "These infidel JOHN BULLS don't see those little Massacres of their Christian brethren in Crete." GRAND VIZIER. "Great is JOHN BULL, and ABDUL AZIZ is his temporary profit."
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Harper's Weekly Magazine, August 17, 1867, p. 528.