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No word of the Servian tongue had I, and it was the reverse of pleasant for a war correspondent in such plight to learn that outside of Belgrade nobody, or at least hardly anybody, knew a word of any other language than the native Servian. As I ate, I was being attended by a very assiduous waiter, whose alertness and anxiety to please were very conspicuous.
Huniades' first daring plan was to force his way through the blockading flotilla, and enter Belgrade before the eyes of the whole Turkish army, taking with him his own soldiers and Capistran's crusaders. The plan completely succeeded. With his own flotilla of boats he broke through that of the Turks and made his entrance into the fortress in triumph.
Emperor Frederick III creates Austria a duchy. Mental aberration of Henry VI of England; the Duke of York protector. Publication of the first-known printing with movable type. See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i. Venice by a treaty with Turkey secures trade privileges in Greece. Beginning of the contest for the crown of England. Battle of Belgrade; victory of Hunyady over the Turks.
At that moment a footman entered the breakfast parlor and handed a business-looking card to the duke, saying, with a bow: "If you please, your grace, the person is waiting in the hall." "By your leave, Lady Belgrade? Sims! show the man into the library, and tell him I will be with him in a few moments. It is Detective Setter," said the duke, as he arose and left the breakfast parlor.
But all we have been able to do so far is to arrange a few services of motor transport to places not reached by railway." My friends were in a poor little wooden hut on the outskirts of Belgrade, very courageous and very sad, and their children, once petted and even pettish, were now grown and serious and facing life earnestly for themselves and for their parents' sake.
For once the presence of a chaperone was not unwelcome to a pair of young people secretly in love with each other. Lady Belgrade chattered of the weather, the opera the park, and what not, and relieved the embarrassment of the lovers during the interval in which Sir Lemuel Levison had gone to change his dress.
The Turks, in violation of their treaty of peace, were again on the march, ascending the Danube along its southern banks, through the defiles of the Sclavonian mountains. In a motley mass of one hundred and fifty thousand men they had passed Belgrade, crossed the Save, and were approaching Peterwarden.
Belgrade, Arch might at once have taken a prominent place among the fashionables; for his singularly handsome face and highbred manners made him an acquisition to any company.
One day the boys of Belgrade took the Cogia along with them into the bath. They had secretly brought in their pouches a number of eggs.
It had begun already after the final subjection of Serbia proper and Bosnia by the Turks in 1459 and 1463, but after the fall of Belgrade, which was the outpost of Hungary against the Turks, in 1521, and the battle of Mohacs, in 1526, when the Turks completely defeated the Magyars, it assumed great proportions.
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