“... The apparently insignificant uprising of several villages in remote Herzegovina was the spark that this time was destined to ignite a gigantic fire that spread from the banks of the Danube to the sources of the Euphrates, to the Nile and the Dardanelles. The landless Bosnians, the Montenegrins oppressed by the beys, the Serbs, the Bulgarians, peaceful and obedient to the Turks, even the Moldo-Vlachs, who had not drawn their weapons for so many centuries, all one after another submitted to the general movement, which should probably put an end to Muslim rule on this side of the Bosphorus.Only the Greeks are still procrastinating, waiting, hesitating…”