MAHOMET II BEFORE CONSTANTINOPLE
Book XVI.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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MAHOMET II BEFORE CONSTANTINOPLE

Mahomet encouraged the combatants with voice and gesture from the shore. When the Ottomans appeared to be failing in their attempt, he could not restrain his anger ; urging his horse into the sea, he seemed to threaten the elements, and, like a barbarian king of antquity, to accuse the waves of being obstacles to his conquests. The sultan burned to avenge this disgrace to his arms, and resolved to make a last effort to render himself master of the port of Constantinople. As the entrance of it was guarded by several large vessels, and closed by a chain of iron that could neither be broken nor passed ; the ottoman monarch employed an extraordinary method, which the besieged had not forseen, and the success of which displayed the force of his will and the extent of his power. In a single night, between seventy and eighty vessels, which were at anchor in the canal of the Black Sea, were transported by land to the gulf of Ceras. The road was covered with planks, plastered with grease, along which a multitude of soldiers and workmen made the vessels slide. - Book XVI

*Notes; pages 245 to 251

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