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. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. WARS AND TREATIES WITH AUSTRIA--CONQUESTS OVER PERSIA--AUSTRIA TRIBUTARY TO THE PORTE--EXPLOITS OF THE TURKISH ADMIRALS--BARBAROSSA--PIRI REIS--SIDI ALI--DRAGUT--PIALE--SOLYMANS DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES--DEATHS OF PRINCE MUSTAPHA AND PRINCE BAJAZET--SIEGE OF MALTA--SIEGE OF SIGETH--DEATH OF SOLYMAN-EXTENT OF THE EMPIRE UNDER HIM--ARMY--NAVY--INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION--LAWS--COMMERCE--BUILDINGS-LITERATURE. A Peace was concluded between the Sultan and Ferdinand in 1533, by which Hungary was divided between Ferdinand and Zapolya. Solyman had, in the interval, again invaded Germany with forces even stronger than those which he led against Vienna; and as Charles V., on this occasion (1532), put himself at the head of the armies of the Empire, which gathered zealously around him, a decisive conflict between the two great potentates of Christendom and Islamism was anxiously expected. But Solyman was checked in his advance by the obstinate defence of the little town of Guns; and after honourable terms had been granted to the brave garrison of that place (29th August, 1532), Solyman finding that Charles did not come forward to Von Hummer, books xxvii. to xxxv. meet him, but remained posted near Vienna, turned aside from the line of march against that city; and, after desolating Styria, returned to his own dominions. Each, probably, of these two great sovereigns was unwilling to risk life, and empire, and the glorious fruits of so many years of toil and care, on the event of a single day; and neither was sorry that his adversary's lukewarmness for battle furnished a creditable excuse for his own. The warlike energies of the Ottomans were now for some time chiefly employed in the East, where the unremitted enmity of Persia to Turkey, and the...
