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He led to the walls of Belgrad an army of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand men. The approach of this immense host so terrified the young King that he left Hungary and took refuge in Vienna along with his uncle and counsellor, Czillei. Hunyady alone remained at his post, resolute like a lion attacked.
It also resulted in giving all Hungary, with Belgrad and a part of Servia, permanently to Austria. After their last great invasion of Austrian territory and their crushing defeat by Sobieski and the Imperialists , the Turks suffered many losses of territory at the hands of various European powers. In 1696 Peter the Great took from them Azov, an important entrance to the Black Sea.
The two greatest leaders in war of that day contended for the possession of Belgrad. The same army now surrounded that fortress which a few years before had stormed Constantinople, reputed impregnable.
Clarke's, and that he had come down at her request to meet Dion, and to tell him that there was a charming room reserved for him at the Belgrad Hotel. "I'll walk up with you if you like," he added, in a casual voice. "It's no distance. That your luggage?" He put it in the charge of a porter from the hotel. "I'm over at Therapia just now. The Ambassador hopes to see you. He's a delightful fellow."
Then, with a sudden change of manner, Dion exclaimed: "Come on, Jimmy! I don't feel like doing lessons this morning. I vote we go out. I'm going to ask your mother if we can ride to the Belgrad forest. Perhaps she'll come with us."
Unfortunately the Grand Seignior had but too well replaced the wrong-headed grand vizier, who had been killed. It was the Pacha of Belgrad, who supplied the vacancy, called Hastchi Ali, who made the most judicious arrangements for the preservation of the place, and caused me a great deal of embarrassment.
See Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music, page 31. See First Modern Novel, page 100. See Watt Improves the Steam-engine, page 302. See Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity, page 130. See Settlement of Georgia, page 44. See Rise of Methodism: Preaching of the Wesleys and of Whitefield, page 57. See Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks: Siege and Battle of Belgrad, page 16.
Immediately below, and stretching away to right and left, were the curving shores of Europe, with the villas and palaces of Buyukderer held between the blue sea and the tree-covered heights of Kabatash; the park of the Russian Palace, the summer home of Russia's representative at the Sublime Porte, gardens of many rich merchants of Constantinople and of Turkish, Greek and Armenian magnates, and the fertile and well-watered country extending to Therapia, Stania and Bebek on the one hand, and to Rumili Kavak, with the great Belgrad forest behind it, and to Rumili Fanar, where the Bosporus flows into the Black Sea, on the other.
In vain the Emperor Leopold I sent an embassy to Constantinople to dissuade the Sultan from his purpose. Early in the spring of 1683 Sultan Mahomet marched forth from his capital with a large army, which at Belgrad he transferred to the command of the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha. Tekeli formed a junction with the Turks at Essek.
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