 | Robin Carver - 1834 - 182 páginas
...he had better open his gates and let the Turks walk in quietly. The governor sent back a very brave answer: " Thou art mistaken if thou expectest to find...courage is great." The Turkish general then ordered his soldiers to fire all their cannon against the walls and beat them down. But it was all in vain.... | |
 | William Martin - 1844 - 440 páginas
...Turks walk in quietly. The governor sent back a very brave answer. " You are mistaken, if you think to find gold within these walls. We have nothing here...courage is great." The Turkish general then ordered his soldiers to fire all their cannon against the walls, and to beat them down. But it was in vain... | |
 | 1846 - 352 páginas
...they had marched in three days before. The vizier in the course of his retreat invested Trembpwla, a small town strongly fortified, in Podolia, which...ammunition. The Polish nobles who were stationed there did not, however, emulate the example of their female general, but began to .pi an a .surrender. They... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 586 páginas
...The Turk successively demanded a surrender and negotiation ; but the brave Jewish governor replied, " Thou art mistaken if thou expectest to find gold within...indeed is small, but our courage is great." The Turkish genera] then opened a heavy cannonade upon the town, but without effect. The wife of the Jewish commander,... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 600 páginas
...brave Jewish governor replied, " Thou art mistaken if thou expectest to find gold within these walla, we have nothing here but steel and soldiers ; our...but our courage is great." The Turkish general then opened a heavy cannonade upon the town, but without effect. The wife of the Jewish commander, who was... | |
 | Russell Lee - 1853 - 506 páginas
...and most probably every one of the ten thousand dead bodies which the Turks are said to have left on the field, was in their eyes a confirmation of their...ammunition. The Polish nobles who were stationed there did not, however, emulate the example of their female general, but began to plan a surrender. They... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1852 - 786 páginas
...brave Jewish governor replied, 'Thou art mistaken if thou expeclest to find gold within these walK we have nothing here but steel and soldiers ; our number indeed is small, uu l our courage is great.' The Turkish general then opened a heavy cannonade upon the town, but without... | |
 | John Sartain, J. S. Hart - 1852 - 1164 páginas
...surrender and negotiation; but the brave Jewish governor replied. 'Thou uri mistaken if thou expectcst to find gold within these walls, we have nothing here but steel und soldiers ; our number indeed is email, out our courage is great.1 The Turkish general then opened... | |
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The enemy fled in one night as many leagues as they had marched in three days before. " The vizier, in the course of his retreat, invested Trembowla, a small town strongly fortified, in Podolia, which was defended by Samuel Chrasonowski, a renegade Jew.... 