 days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer be averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double attack; the fortifications, which had stood for ages against hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon; many breaches...  Lights and Shadows of European History - Pagina 312door Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 320 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...heads of two hundred and sixty Mussulman captives." The magnitude of the undertaking certainly stands not unrivalled even in the remoter ages, and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken; forty youths, the bravest of Italy...massacred a,t his command ; nor could the emperor's grief he assuaged by the jua,t though, cruel retaliation, of exposing from the walls the heads of two hundred... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the Sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...sixty Mussulman captives. After a siege of forty days, Distress the fate of Constantinople could no longer be averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their furemost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...by the just though cruel retaliation, of exposing fromthe walls the heads of two hundred and sixty Musulman captives. After the siege of forty days,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pagina’s
...as well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken; forty youths, the bravest of Italy...from the walls the heads of two hundred and sixty Musulman captives. After a siege of forty days, the fate of Constantinople could CHAP. no longer be... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...the emperor's grief be assuaged by the just though crue! retaliation, of exposing from the walls the heads of two hunoiHrmof dred and sixty Mussulman... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...hundred and sixty Mussulman captives. After a siege Distress of of forty days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer e City' he averted. The diminutive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - 482 pagina’s
...well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented their approach ; their foremost galliots were sunk or taken ; forty youths, the bravest of...fate of Constantinople could no longer be averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double attack ; the fortifications, which had stood for... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pagina’s
...the fatal moment," had checked a mightier conqueror, or more ferocious monster, than Mahomet II. " After a siege of forty days, the fate of Constantinople COULD NO LONGER BE AVERTED. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double attach; the fortifications, WHICH HAD STOOD FOR AGES... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pagina’s
...the fatal moment," had checked a mightier conqueror, or more ferocious monster, than Mahomet II. " After a siege of forty days, the -fate of Constantinople COULD NO LONGER BE AVERTED. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double altnck ; the fortifications, WHICH HAB STOOD FOR... | |
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