THE SINEWS OF WAR
Book XVII.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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THE SINEWS OF WAR

After the death of Paul II, who had not time to achieve his work, and did not witness the effect of his preachings, his successor, Sextus IV, neglected nothing for the defence of Christendom. When scarcely seated on the pontifical throne, he deputed cardinals to several states of Europe, to preach peace among Christians and war against the Turks. The legates were specially intrusted to press the levying of the tenths for the crusade. They were authorized to launch the thunders of excommunication against those who should oppose this impost, or who misapplied the produce of it. It severity, which occasioned troubles in England, and still more in Germany, succeeded in other countries, and furnished the sovereign pontiff with means for preparing for war.
Great advantage might have been taken of a powerful diversion of the Persians. But the Venetians, the king of Naples, and the pope, alone put themselves forward to make war against the Ottomans. The sovereign pontiff had caused twenty-four galleys to be built with the produce of the tenths levied for the crusade. This fleet, commanded by Cardinal Caraffa, and collected in the Tiber, after having been blessed by Sextus IV, went to join that of Venice and Naples, and cruised along the coasts of Ionia and Pamphylia, to the great terror of all the maritime Ottoman cities.

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The Venetians did not fail to direct the operations of the Christian fleet against the cities whose wealth and commerce gave them any cause for jealousy. Satalia and Smyrna were given up to the horrors of war ; the first of these, situated on the coast of Pamphylia, was the ENTREPOT for the productions and the merchandise of India and Arabia. The second, situated in the Ionian Sea, possessed rich manufactures and a flourishing trade. The Christian soldiers committed in these two cities all the kinds of excess with which the Turks were then reproached. After this piratical expedition, the fleet regained the ports of Italy, and Cardinal Caraffa returned triumphant to Rome, followed by twenty-five captives mounted upon superb horses, and by twelve camels, loaded with the spoils of the enemy. The ensigns taken from the Mussulmans, and the chain of the port of Satalia, were solemnly suspended over the gate and in the vaulted roof of the Vatican. - Book XVII

*Notes; pages 266 described .. page 267 mentions the Mussulmans make prey of Cyprus which the Christians had defended against the |Mamelukes and Turks and held it till the middle of the following century. The eyes of the whole Christian world were fixed on the isle of Rhodes. This isle, defended by the knights of St. John, recalled to the faithful the remembrance of the Holy Land. . . Several historians have related at great length the events of the siege of Rhodes.