Topal Osman Pasha
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Topal Osman Pasha was a Grand Vizier
Grand Vizier
Grand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam , deriving from the Arabic word vizier , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself...

 in the Ottoman Empire
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. Osman was born in Morea
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 and was educated in the Seraglio
Seraglio
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 at Constantinople
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. At the age of twenty-six he attained the rank of Beylerbeyi
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; and was sent on a mission to the Governor of Egypt
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. On the voyage his ship encountered a Spanish corsair
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 and Osman was captured after a fight in the course of which he received a wound which lamed him for life, whence he obtained his name of Topal. He became Grand Vizier on September 21, 1731. Topal Osman was superseded in the Grand Vizierate in 1732. Before Topal Osman had been long in retirement, the military victories of the Persian
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 army of Nader Shah
Nader Shah
Nāder Shāh Afshār ruled as Shah of Iran and was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Because of his military genius, some historians have described him as the Napoleon of Persia or the Second Alexander...

 made the sultan again require his services; and he was sent into Asia as generaIissimo of the Turkish armies in that continent, and was invested with almost unlimited powers. He marched to encounter Nader and on July 19, 1733, defeated him in a pitched battle, near the banks of the Tigris
Tigris
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 close to Baghdad
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. The victory thus gained by Topal Osman on the Tigris, rescued Baghdad and he again defeated the Persians, near Leilan, in the same year. But in a third battle with Nader, near Kirkuk
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, the Turks were decisively defeated by Persians; and Topal Osman himself died fighting sword in hand. He killed by Allahyar Beig Gerayli And his head was cut. His body was borne off the field by some of his attendants, and was afterwards brought for burial to Constantinople
Constantinople
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