| World history - 1760 - 578 pages
...them ftand their ground, but all pre-<' cipitately fled towards their camp. This laft repulfe threw the proud foltan into fuch a fury, that none of his...of his having now fpent near fix whole months with fuch a numerous army before the place, and having loft fuch myriads of his brava troops with fo little... | |
| Virginia - 1760 - 592 pages
...them ftand their ground, but all pre-' cipitately fled towards their camp. This laft repulfe threw the proud foltan into fuch a fury, that none of his officers dared to come near him ; and the ftiame of his having now fpent near fix whole months with fuch a numerous army be? fore the place,... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1796 - 426 pages
...their ground, but all precipitately fled towards their camp. This lait repulfe threw the proud fultan into fuch a fury, that none of his officers dared to come near him ; and the ihame of his having now fpent near fix whole months with fuch a numerous army before the place, and... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 766 pages
...their ground, but all precipitately fled towards their camp. This iaft repulfe threw the proud i'ultan into fuch a fury, that none of his officers dared to come near him ¡ and the (líame of his having now fpent near fix whole months with fuch a numerous army before the place, and... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...the bashaw could DO longer make them stand their ground. This last repulse threw the sultan into such a fury that none of his officers dared to come near him ; and the shame of his having now spent nearly six whole months with a numerous army before the place, and having... | |
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