 | Society of Antiquaries of London - 1829 - 584 páginas
...in their last defence of Constantinople in 1463. Gibbon, in his spirited detail of that event, says: "Their small arms discharged at the same time either...breast-plates and bodies were transpierced by the same shot." Monstrelet, who concluded his Chronicles in 1467, also speaks of these weapons. Grose, on the authority... | |
 | 1842 - 470 páginas
...a foam, again rose and bounded against the opposite hill.' " In the siege, ' the incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the SMOKE,...cannon. Their small arms discharged at the same time five or even ten balls of lead of the size of a walnut, and according to the closeness of the ranks,... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1847 - 606 páginas
...foundry of the cannon at Adrianople : then, in the progress of the siege itself, describes how " the vollies of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke, the sound, and the fire of the musketry and cannon:" how "the long order of Turkish artillery was pointed against the walls ;... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1852 - 530 páginas
...Constantinople by the Turks, Mr. Gibbon says of the defence by the Christians (¡v. 343), "The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke,...sound, and the fire of their musketry and cannon." " The same destructive secret," he adds, "had been revealed to the Moslems, by whom it was employed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 páginas
...virtue ; and the foreign auxiliaries supported the honour of the Western chivalry. The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke,...even, ten, balls of lead, of the size of a walnut 4 and, according to the closeness .of the ranks and the force of the powder, several breastplates and... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 páginas
...action ; and this is more natural to the serpentine look they have. 'i Charcoal, nitre, and sulphur. ' " Their small arms discharged at the same time, either...even ten, balls of lead, of the size of a walnut." Gibbon, chap. Iviii. ; about the middle. We must imagine them all to be used with carriages or rests.... | |
 | Francis H. Berick - 1854 - 394 páginas
...were employed in a laborious journey of one hundred and fifty miles."* Again, " The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke, the sound, and the the fire of their musketry and cannon. Their small arms discharged at the same time either five, or... | |
 | William Martin - 1856 - 352 páginas
...sortie and the attack. The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the sword andi the fire of their musketry and cannon. Their small...of lead of the size of a walnut, and, according to circumstances, very frequently the stoutest breastplates were pierced by these missiles, and the Turkish... | |
 | 1862 - 432 páginas
...virtue ; and the foreign auxiliaries supported the honor of the Western chivalry. The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke,...of the powder, several breastplates and bodies were trans pierced by the same shot. But the Turkish approaches were soon sunk in trenches, or covered with... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1862 - 432 páginas
...virtue ; and the foreign auxiliaries supported the honor of the Western chivalry. The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke,...at the same time, either five, or even ten, balls * About sis English miles. of lead, of the size of a walnut ; and, according to the closeness of the... | |
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The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke, the sound, and the fire, of their musketry and cannon. Their small arms discharged, at the same time, either five, or even ten, balls of lead, of the size of a walnut ; and, according... 
