People · fl. 1715
Benjamin Brue
Interpreter of the King of France at the Ottoman court, eyewitness of 1715
Brue followed the Ottoman reconquest of the Morea in 1715 in the camp of the Grand Vizier and kept a journal. He describes the spring of Lerna with six mills on six channels, the place the locals called Tziveri, and the two long army camps there.
Also written: Μπενζαμέν Μπρυ, B. Brue
Events
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21 July 1715 – 4 August 1715
The Ottoman army camps at the mills of Tziveri
On 21 July 1715, the day after Nafplio fell to the Ottomans, Grand Vizier Damat Ali Pasha moved his army away from the stench of the dead to the western end of the gulf, below a hill with the remains of an ancient city.…
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21 July 1715
The captured Venetian commander Bon is found in the camp
In the same camp the Venetian provveditore generale of the Morea, Alessandro Bon, was found in the tent of a janissary, wounded in the shoulder, and put in chains. On 29 July he, General 'Zaco', Balbi and other officers…
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1 August 1715
Five Venetian officers are executed at the camp
On 1 August 1715, in the camp at Tziveri, Osman Aga received the rank of pasha of two horsetails, the governorship of Erzurum and the command of Nafplio. The same day five Venetian officers of the Nafplio garrison were…
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4 August 1715
The army leaves over the pass towards Achladokampos
On 4 August 1715 the Grand Vizier left the camp at Tziveri for Modon (Methoni). Brue describes an hour through fairly flat land and then three hours over a narrow, difficult pass through rocky mountains: the road from…
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21 September 1715 – 5 October 1715
Back at 'the camp of the Mills'
After conquering the rest of the Morea, the Grand Vizier returned on 21 September 1715 to Tziveri, 'the camp of the Mills', west of the gulf and three leagues from Nafplio. On 23 September the troops received three…
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22 September 1715
The Sultan's gifts for the conqueror of the Morea
On 22 September 1715, in the camp of the Mills, the Sultan's sword-bearer (silahdar) handed the Grand Vizier an imperial decree, a sable fur and a sabre set with diamonds and turquoises, as a reward for the reconquest of…