"Liman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Calpe Kirpe Liman or Karpe in the modern maps. The name is interesting as being also the ancient name of the rock ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
... properly." Our batteries answered three S.O.S. calls between 10 A.M. and 1 o'clock; and, simultaneously with a news message from Division stating that British cavalry had reached Nazareth and crossed the Jordan, that 18,000 prisoners and 160 guns had been captured, and that Liman von Sanders had escaped by the skin of his teeth, came a report from young Beale that Germans could be seen ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... Bosphorus after the Turkish revolution of 1908, in spite of the original Anglophil bias of the Young Turks, and as some critics maintain, in consequence of the blundering of the British representatives. The mission of Von der Goltz in 1908 and that of Liman von Sanders in 1914 put the Turkish army under German command, and by the outbreak of the war German influence was predominant in Constantinople. This political influence was, no doubt, used, and intended to be used, to further ...
— The European Anarchy • G. Lowes Dickinson |
