 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...forty days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer 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 were opened ; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...the fate of Constantinople could CHAP. 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 were opened ; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Greece - 1828 - 516 pages
...After immense preparations, he invested Constantinople with an army of three hundred thousand men.f His artillery, consisting of fourteen powerful batteries,...distributed and worn as bracelets, or amulets. See Gibbon. t Hawkins's Mignot, vol. 1. p. 130. mantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ;* many breaches were... | |
 | P A. Beddome - History - 1844 - 280 pages
...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 were opened ; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | Battles - 1862 - 432 pages
...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 were opened ; and near the gate of... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...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 • manv breaches were opened ; and near the gate of... | |
 | Henry Martyn Harman - Egypt - 1873 - 348 pages
...days, the fate of Constantinople could be no longer averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by double attack : the fortifications which had stood for ages against hostile violence were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ; many breaches were opened ; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...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 were opened; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...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 Ottoman1 cannon ; many breaches were opened ; and near the gate of... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1888 - 456 pages
...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 were opened, and near the gate of St.... | |
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After a siege of forty 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... 
