The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY AMURATH THE SECOND . HISTORIES OF TIMOUR , or Tamerlane 1361-1370 . His first Adventures 1370. He ascends the Throne of Zagatai 1370-1400 . His conquests 1380-1393 . I. Of Persia 1370-1383 . II . Of Turkestan ...
... SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY AMURATH THE SECOND . HISTORIES OF TIMOUR , or Tamerlane 1361-1370 . His first Adventures 1370. He ascends the Throne of Zagatai 1370-1400 . His conquests 1380-1393 . I. Of Persia 1370-1383 . II . Of Turkestan ...
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... Siege of Constantinople by Amurath II . 1402-1425 . State of the Greek Empire 1425-1448 . The Emperor John Palæologus II . Hereditary Succession and Merit of the Ottomans Education and Discipline of the Turks Invention and use of ...
... Siege of Constantinople by Amurath II . 1402-1425 . State of the Greek Empire 1425-1448 . The Emperor John Palæologus II . Hereditary Succession and Merit of the Ottomans Education and Discipline of the Turks Invention and use of ...
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... Siege of Constantinople The Great Cannon of Mahomet 1453. Mahomet II . forms the Siege of Constantinople . Forces of the Turks of the Greeks 1452. False Union of the Two Churches Obstinacy and Fanaticism of the Greeks 1453. Siege of ...
... Siege of Constantinople The Great Cannon of Mahomet 1453. Mahomet II . forms the Siege of Constantinople . Forces of the Turks of the Greeks 1452. False Union of the Two Churches Obstinacy and Fanaticism of the Greeks 1453. Siege of ...
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... said to have died there in 1213 . He has been confounded by some writers with his nephew , who was equal to his arduous situation ; in the siege of 18 [ CH . LXI . REIGN AND CHARACTER 1206-1216 Reign and Character of Henry.
... said to have died there in 1213 . He has been confounded by some writers with his nephew , who was equal to his arduous situation ; in the siege of 18 [ CH . LXI . REIGN AND CHARACTER 1206-1216 Reign and Character of Henry.
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Edward Gibbon. equal to his arduous situation ; in the siege of Constan- tinople , and beyond the Hellespont , he had deserved the fame of a valiant knight and a skilful commander ; and his courage was tempered with a degree of prudence ...
Edward Gibbon. equal to his arduous situation ; in the siege of Constan- tinople , and beyond the Hellespont , he had deserved the fame of a valiant knight and a skilful commander ; and his courage was tempered with a degree of prudence ...
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Page 322 - The number of the Ottomans was fifty, perhaps a hundred, times superior to that of the Christians; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins: in a circuit of several miles, some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded; and if the besiegers could penetrate in a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost. The first who deserved the sultan's reward was Hassan the Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his...
Page 203 - The precise era of the invention and application of gunpowder is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language ; yet we may clearly discern that it was known before the middle of the fourteenth century ; and that before the end of the same, the use of artillery in battles and sieges, by sea and land, was familiar to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England.
Page 310 - ... hides ; incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors were contrived for the alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and workmen. They ascended, by a staircase, to the upper platform ; and, as high as the level of that platform, a scaling ladder could be raised by pulleys, to form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart.
Page 319 - The preceding night had been strenuously employed : the troops, the cannon, and the fascines, were advanced to the edge of the ditch, which in many parts presented a smooth and level passage to the breach; and his fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbour.
Page 471 - Rome, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student; and the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly visited by a new race of pilgrims from the remote and once savage countries of the North.
Page 82 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 310 - A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the same walls; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold...
Page 320 - The foremost ranks consisted of the refuse of the host, a voluntary crowd who fought without order or command ; of the feebleness of age or childhood, of peasants and vagrants, and of all who had joined the camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the...