Identifier: worldsleadingcon00beva (find matches)
Title: The world's leading conquerors: Alexander the Great, Caesar, Charles the Great, the Ottoman sultans, the Spanish conquistadors, Napoleon
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bevan, Wilson Lloyd. (from old catalog)
Subjects: History Kings and rulers. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rrified.Every assault made on the great bastions of the citadelcaused enormous losses among the Turks; but their pro-longed artillery fire and the new supplies of men, drawnconstantly from Asia, showed the mere handful of de-fenders that their struggle could have only one outcome.In December, 1522, the island capitulated on terms thatwere favorable to the heroic defenders; even the Sultanappreciated the tragedy, for he is recorded to have said tohis favorite Ibrahim, that he was loath to force this Chris-tian commander, in his old age, to leave his house and hisgoods. The next field of Soulimans military enterprise wasPersia, where the Shah, by the defection of an Ottomanofficial, had recovered some of the territory taken by SeHm.Souliman, appearing with a large force, received the sub-mission of many of the Shahs vassals, and, after a longmarch to the East, during which his cannon had to beabandoned, entered the ancient capital of the Khalifate, • SVII1Y/AAM*A1N*KAISER?DER:TIRCKEI*
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