Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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standard on theramparts, but they were soon beaten off by the defenders, led by their grandmaster in person: five times wounded, and covered with blood, PierredAubusson refused to leave the scene of the struggle, which he animated byhis example. His lofty heroism infused new energy into his knights, whorushed on the Turks with the courage of despair and put them completely tothe rout. But victory as it was, it was not sufficiently definitive or decisiveto secure to the order the tranquil possession of the island, and leave themfor the future free from Turkish aggression. Ever since the death of A A MILITARY ORDERS. Mahomet II., they had had in their power a precious hostage, Zizim, abrother of Sultan Bajazet, and his most formidable competitor for the throne(Figs. 141 and 142). In 1522, Sultan Soliman II., surnamed the Magnificent, discoveredamidst his fathers archives an exact account of the island of Rhodes,and resolved to attack it. He put forward, as a pretext, a desire to punish
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"Description of the Siege of the Island of Rhodes," by G. Caoursin (Ulm, 1496: Gothic Folio) - Library of M. Ambr. Firmin-Didot.

the knights of the order for the losses they were daily inflicting on theTurkish navy, and the hope of paralyzing their efforts in favour of the HolyLand. The treachery of Andre Amaral, the chancellor of the order andthe grand prior of Castile, who wished to revenge himself on his brotherknights for having preferred to himself as their grand master, Philippe de MILITARY ORDERS. 179 Villiers de llle-Adam, made Soliman aware of the scanty material resources ofthe island, and persuaded him to undertake the fatal s

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