Armenia (Republic) -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature
[21] Andranick, a popular hero of song and story, and a revolutionary
leader in Armenia for the past thirty years. During the Great War,
he organized Armenian troops and led them against the Turks. Knowing
the topography of the country so well, his troops were always in the
advance parties of the Russians with whom they were fighting. Andranick
was commissioned Major-General by the Russians and was six times
decorated by them for gallantry. He rescued and cared for thousands
of Armenian refugees, who clung to his army for months for protection;
though they impeded his progress, he could not forsake them. His career
has been one of remarkable romance and adventure. At the present time,
January, 1920, it is said that he is the only person on whose head
the Turks have set a price.
It is interesting to know that the hero of Archag and Aram is a real
person of flesh and blood, and has recently been here in the United
States. He came as a member of the Armenian Military Mission to
plead with the American Government for help for stricken Armenia,
asking for military, financial and economic assistance, that his
people might be enabled to help themselves in the future.
An article about Andranick, with a photograph, appeared in the New
York Evening Post, November 29, 1919.
[22] Raffi: a celebrated writer of romance, born in Russian Armenia,
in 1835. "Djelaleddin" is his chief work.
[23] Botsaris: a hero of the Greek struggle for independence.
[24] Each girdle is from one to two meters long.
[25] Baronian: a satirical writer, born at Adrianople, in 1840.
[26] Tamerlane: a Mongol chief.
[27] Gulenia: little rose.
[28] Dolma: minced meat wrapped in a vine-leaf.
[29] Mullah: a Mussulman priest.
[30] Hamidieh March: a national march composed in honor of Sultan
Hamid.
[31] Mr. Rodgers, an American missionary killed at Adana in the
massacre of 1908.
End of Project Gutenberg's Archag The Little Armenian, by Charles H. Schnapps
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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