Sujet

The Assassinations at Constantinople: Hussein Avni Pasha, Minister of War, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Assassinations at Constantinople: Hussein Avni Pasha, Minister of War, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Abdullah Freres. 'Another shocking crime has taken place in the seat of Government at Constantinople...while the Ministers of State forming the new Sultan's Government were sitting together in the Council-Chamber, a person named Hassan, who had been an officer in the army, forced his entrance into the room and killed Hussein Avni Pasha, the Minister of War, with a shot from a revolver. The others attempting to seize him, he shot dead the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Raschid Pasha...Hussein Avni Pasha...has now fallen a victim to assassination from motives of personal revenge'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_343

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Droits gérés

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53,9Mo (3,2Mo) / 32,2cm x 42,0cm / 3801 x 4960 (300dpi)

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