Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... Arrival of the Arch-duke Mathias. Early in the morning of the day the events of which we have just described, a movement was discovered among the enemy's troops, and soon after their foot and horse moved in the direction of Komran. About midday the arch-duke, with his army and heavy baggage, made his appearance, and soon encamped. His army, one division after another, took up its position, and displayed immense pomp; no doubt with the view of inspiring the besieged with an idea of their might, and thus of dispiriting them. These manoeuvres and movements being over, the duke called a general council of his great men, in which a variety of matters were discussed. No one, however, could give him any thing like a correct account of Kaniza. Ferdinand declared, weeping, that in all his life he had never met nor seen people like the Kanizians. "Whenever we speak in a friendly manner to them," said the indignant Ferdinand, "they brandish their swords." The duke replied in very harsh terms: accused him of having acted himself some way or other treacherously, or " you are not," said the noble duke, "acquainted with the operations of war. I have been up the country, and have reduced a city like Alba Julia, and have contended all this while with Turkish armies. Several of their chief men I have beheaded. It is now three months since you commenced your operations, and you have not been able to take so much as one palanka." Such were some of the subjects which occupied the noble duke's great council. Ferdinand and his officers were indignant at the treatment they had received from the arch-duke, and proposed, as they had nothing, to leave him and his troops to carry on the siege which they had so inauspiciously begun. After the dismissal of the...
