With the help of Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Montenegrins, and Greeks, the Russian imperial army would sweep through Ottoman Bulgaria, liberating town after town. But once the Russians reached the gates of Constantinople, the Great Powers (predictably) began to get a wee bit nervous.

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Things weren't so looking great for the Ottomans in the summer of 1876. We've got widespread revolts, bankruptcy, public outrage across Europe, diplomatic isolation, two coups within a month, and Russia & Serbia both preparing for war. But you know, at least they got a new constitution out of it!

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In the aftermath of the April Uprising, the bashi bazouks committed terrible crimes against humanity. As news of the Batak Massacre filtered back into the western presses, public outcry would spread all throughout Europe. Prominent figures such as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Giuseppe Garibaldi will publicly support Bulgarian Liberation and call on their governments to intervene.

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In April of 1876, the Bulgarians rose up, and the Ottomans clamped down.

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Vasil Levski, the "apostle" of Bulgarian Liberation, spread his revolutionary gospel throughout Ottoman Bulgaria as he brought the movement out of the emigre circles of Romania. Levski would then join forces with Hristo Botev and Lyeben Karavelov to found the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, laying the ground work for the April Uprising of 1876.

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Who's got the better mustache: Georgi Rakovski or Panyot Hitov?

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"Oh Ottomans, what are we going to do with you?" - The Great Powers

"Just give us a chance, we promise we can change!" - The Ottomans

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...and the Great Powers. Throughout the Egyptian-Ottoman Wars, the great Pasha, Muhammed Ali, would score one victory after another against the now truly floundering Sultan Mahmud II. But, as usual, the Great Powers are gonna have something to say about all of this.

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