Today, dueling is against the law. However, did you know that it's forbidden by the Catholic Church because it involves a double sin? The desire to kill and the willingness to die. Baltaji Mohamed Pasha was both Turkish Grand Vizier and Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish armies in 1711, when a powerful Turkish army encircled a Russian army, commanded by Tsar Peter the Great near the river Prut in Moldavia, Romania. No power on earth seemed capable of saving the Russian army. Yet the Turkish commander let his country's mortal enemy escape. Later, when the Grand Vizier was asked why, he said, if I took the Tsar prisoner, who would rule Russia? Believe It or Not!
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