. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. army of a hundred thousandmen arrived off Rhodes on the 23rd of May, 1480. The Turkish fleetendeavoured, under cover of the fire of their artillery, to effect the disembar-cation of their troops, while the knights of the order, supported by the gunsof the town and its forts, waded up to their waists in the sea and attacked theOttoman boats sword in hand. The infidels at last succeeded in making good their landing, and en-trenched themselves on Mount St. Stephen. After the knights had beenvainly summoned to s
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. army of a hundred thousandmen arrived off Rhodes on the 23rd of May, 1480. The Turkish fleetendeavoured, under cover of the fire of their artillery, to effect the disembar-cation of their troops, while the knights of the order, supported by the gunsof the town and its forts, waded up to their waists in the sea and attacked theOttoman boats sword in hand. The infidels at last succeeded in making good their landing, and en-trenched themselves on Mount St. Stephen. After the knights had beenvainly summoned to surrender, a German engineer who had accompaniedPaleologus, and who was the superintendent of the siege operations, advisedthe latter to concentrate his attack on the tower of St. Nicholas, the captureof which would be certain to make him master of the place. After morethan three hundred discharges of cannon a breach was effected, and theTurks rushed to the assault. Pierre dAubusson, grand prior of Auvergne,recently elected grand master, stood aloft in the breach and set an example.
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