This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...intended to leave them to themfelves, as long as there was any profpect: of their being able to make refiftance; by doing which he confidered, that he would not only preferve his Von I. Q own B oo K own ftrength entire, but might afterwards en v--r_, gage with the Turks, when they were exhaufted 565-by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...intended to leave them to themfelves, as long as there was any profpect: of their being able to make refiftance; by doing which he confidered, that he would not only preferve his Von I. Q own B oo K own ftrength entire, but might afterwards en v--r_, gage with the Turks, when they were exhaufted 565-by the operations of the fiege. Philip adhered inflexibly to this plan, not-withftanding the grand-mafter's repeated importunities, much longer than was confiftent even with his own felfifh views. For, without a. degree of fortitude and prowefs on the part of the garrifon, and a degree of wifdom, vigilance, and magnanimity, on that of the grand-mafter, infinitely higher than there could be reafon to expect, it muft have been impoflible for fuch.a handful of men to have withftood, for fo long a time, fo great a force, and fuch mighty efforts as were employed to reduce them. Even the death of the grand-mafter alone, whofe perfon was expofed to perpetual danger, would have proved fatal to the knights, long before Philip fent orders to his viceroy to give them any effectual fupport; and in this cafe, as his own dominions or his fleet would have been immediately attacked, he would probably have had little reafon to be fatisfied with the timid, ungenerous counfels which he purfued. Whatever judgment may be formed on this head, the viceroy did not think himfelf at liberty to yield to the repeated applications of the the grand-mafter, till the operations of the fiege B o o K began to relax, and the Turkifh forces were re-.--duced from forty-five thoufand to fifteen or fix-ls6' teen thoufand; of whom many were worn out with the fatigues which they had undergone, and others rendered unfit for action by a bloody flux, which for feveral weeks had raged amongft...
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