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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
by the peace of Bucharest, Alexander I

obtained Moldavia, and the prettily-named

province of Bessarabia, with its apples,

peaches, and cherries. Then came the great

Nicholas, who won the right of the free

navigation of the Black Sea, the Dardanelles,

and the Danube, but whose inordinate greed

led him into the Crimean war, by which he lost

Moldavia, and the right of navigating the

Danube, and the unrestricted navigation of the

Black Sea. This was no doubt a severe repulse

to Russia, but it did not extinguish the designs

upon the Ottoman power, nor did it contribute

in any essential degree to the stability of the

Ottoman empire. Patiently biding her time,

Russia has been watching and waiting, and in

1870, when all the Western nations were

watching the Franco-Prussian war, she

announced to the powers that she would be no