. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . \ In order to avoid the dis-couragement which would seize upon the army were it to learn of the death ofits glorious emperor, Muhammed Sokkoli carefully kept the catastrophe asecret, and letters purporting to be from the sultan were read to the soldiers toarouse their courage. Finally, on September Sth, there w;\s nothing left tothe besieged but the great tower which had been their powder magazine; allhope of escape was go
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . \ In order to avoid the dis-couragement which would seize upon the army were it to learn of the death ofits glorious emperor, Muhammed Sokkoli carefully kept the catastrophe asecret, and letters purporting to be from the sultan were read to the soldiers toarouse their courage. Finally, on September Sth, there w;\s nothing left tothe besieged but the great tower which had been their powder magazine; allhope of escape was gone. Zrinyi put on a silken garment and took the keys ofthe fortress with a hundred ducats. He armed himself with the oldest of thefour swords of honour which he had won, saying: It was with this weaponthat I acquired my first honours and my first glory; with it I should like toappear before the throne of the Eternal and there hear my sentence. After a .short harangue to the six hundred brave men who were left him,he gave the order to open the gates just as the janissaries advanced. An enor-mous cannon sent a charge of grapeshot among them. In the midst of the. MERIDIAN AND BEGINNING OF DECLINE 359 [1566 A. D.] smoke, the palatine, preceded by his standard-bearer and followed by anequerry, plimged into the thickest of the hostile ranks; in spite of prodigiesof valour he was taken alive and decapitated on the mouth of a cannon. Thejanissaries, mad with rage, rushed into the citadel, massacring all the inliab-itants, cutting to pieces women and children; suddenly the mined towerexploded with a terrible noise, burying three thousand Ottomans in its three weeks longer the death of the sultan was kept secret, and the vizirdirected affairs until the heir to the throne had had time to arrive at Constan-tinople from Sultan Suleiman I left to his successors an empire to the extent of whichfew important permanent additions were ever made, except the islands ofCyprus and
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