Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ffote. The victorious Turks poured throughthe gaps in the ramparts, and the brief workof destruction began and ended in city was in the hands of the infidel. It is curiously noted by Gibbon that the siegeof Constantinople murks the epoch of tlie
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ffote. The victorious Turks poured throughthe gaps in the ramparts, and the brief workof destruction began and ended in city was in the hands of the infidel. It is curiously noted by Gibbon that the siegeof Constantinople murks the epoch of tlie trans-formation of the old weaponry into the the walls of the city the cannon, the bat-terinc; ram and the catapult were used side iiy side,and the smoke of gunpowder mingled with thefumes of Greek fire. 384 rMy]:i:sAL insTonv.—THK a^liem world. The thinned of the Creeks were liewn I As his sjiirit went fnrth witli a wail tlie po,)r Constantiue, surnamileil Ky hi-- -uanl, fon-lit tiie siiKjke; tlie la-t <if the OM tivili/.a- bravely to the last, anil all that dying I ti<.n of mankind with a ferhh- Ihitter valor could aeeoniplisli to redeem the forfeited j fi-um the dyin- heart of the , and the fame of his raee. lie threw away his purple | ,ui«at drama c/f the Knnian Empiic was at an. T OPHI \ r be m 1 1 1 I i h t hi 1 i Hi i en 1 With the mornin-- li-ht the smoke 1 tth Ii 1 1 1 1 11 I 1 It 11 1 cl lie! away from the ruined city, and the Chiitnu le f un 1 t iit ti iin heil He lien crescent of the Arabian was fell at h t 1 ^ nu uul n wu haul an 1 -w t e u lifted on liigli above the gilded dome cif tramjjled in the blood and dust of the streets. fc?t. Sophia. -^^^ji;a,;S^iik^iMiTrfi)^-|
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