The History of TekeliH. C. Southwick, 1815 - 213 páginas |
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The History of Tekeli: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint) Pigault Le Brun Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
The History of Tekeli: Translated from the French (Classic Reprint) Pigault Le Brun Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 205 - ... general assault had arrived ; it proved unsuccessful. The assailants were repulsed in every attack. Some altercation or other took place among the principal generals. This is often occasioned by the persons about them. Scandal finds its way into head-quarters as well as into ordinary society. At length, having lost thirty thousand men, the duke of Lorraine raised the siege on the 1st of November. At Vienna this furnished occasion for many animadversions and many absurdities. One supposed that...
Página 202 - ... who had so often repelled the infidels, still remained dissatisfied ; and at last broke out again into an open rebellion, which threatened at one time the ruin of the house of Austria. Tekeli, chief of the insurgents, called in the Turks to his support.; and Mahomet IV., the reigning sultan, prepared the most formidable force ever sent by the Ottoman Porte, against Christendom. Leopold, seeing the gathering storm, entered into an offensive and defensive alliance with the famous John Sobieski,...
Página 202 - Christendom; that it consisted of 50,000 janissaries, 30,000 spahis, and 200,000 other soldiers, with an immense artillery, proportioned to the magnitude of the armament. Hawkins, in bis History of the Turkish Empire, says...
Página 204 - After having taken, witn him, Vicegrad, Gran, and Weitzen, and sustained a glorious combat near this last place, we had a more desperate one near the Isle of St.
Página 159 - I was occupied in reflecting on some means to extricate myself from the dilemma in which I was placed.
Página 209 - ... .How- we sometimes find, by the side of the most ' : . horrible events, something that amuses us ! I ''•did' so in the looks and gestures of the Jews, *' whom we compelled to throw into the Danube, " the twelve thousand men on both sides, to save " the trouble and expense of burying them.