 | Stanley Lane-Poole - Turkey - 1888 - 414 pages
...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 cannon. Many breaches were opened, and near the gate of St.... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 154 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.... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1893 - 460 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.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 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.... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman - Turkey - 1899 - 418 pages
...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 cannon. Many breaches were opened, and near the gate of St.... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 736 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.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1908 - 528 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 Saint... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer be averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted t of the tide.' dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon; many breaches were opened; and near the gate of St.... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - Austria - 1914 - 656 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.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1916 - 324 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 Saint... | |
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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... 
