 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 584 pages
...enemy, astonish'd to see their houses and their goods consum'd, and their families burn'd, resolv'd to hang out a white flag ; and, with earnest and loud cries toward the battery of the superintendant, Count Felice, begg'd 'em to fling no more bombs : which the... | |
 | William Martin Leake - Athens (Greece) - 1841 - 670 pages
...labour Serjeant Major Perez, of the regiment of Cleuters, died the 24th at night of a wound received by a musket-bullet. The 23rd, four more great guns, two...three redoubts, which they built between the city and Peirœeus, to secure the road from the cavalry of the Seraskier. But a more formidable enemy now assailed... | |
 | Léon marquis de Laborde - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 442 pages
...enemy, » astonish'd to see their houses and their goods consum'd » and their families burn'd, resolv'd to hang out a white » flag, and with earnest and loud cries towards the battery » of the super-intendant count Felice, begg'd'en to fling no » more bombs; which the count understanding, caus'd... | |
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... there happened another great fire, which increasing upon the fuel of the houses and the continual playing of our bombs, endured so furious all that day and the next night, that the enemy, astonished to see their houses and their goods consumed, and... 