of the Ottomans, though directed by the skill of Amurath and his successor Mahomet, the conqueror of Constantinople." _Sir E. S. Creasy, History of the Ottoman Turks, chapter 4._ "Scanderbeg died a fugitive at Lissus on the Venetian territory [A. D. 1467]. His sepulchre was soon violated by the Turkish conquerors; but the janizaries, who wore his bones enchased in a bracelet, declared by this superstitious amulet their involuntary reverence for his valour. ... His infant son was saved from the national shipwreck; the Castriots were invested with a Neapolitan dukedom, and their blood continues to flow in the noblest families of the realm." _E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 67. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717_ ALSO IN _A. Lamartine, History of Turkey, book 11, sections 11-25._ ALBANIANS: A. D. 1694-1696. Conquests by the Venetians. See TURKS: A. D. 1684-1696. ----------ALBANIANS: End---------- ALBANY, NEW YORK: A. D. 1623. The first Settlement. In 1614, the year after the first Dutch traders had established their operations on Manhattan Island, they built a trading house, which they called Fort Nassau, on Castle Island, in the Hudson River, a little below the site of the present city of Albany. Three years later this small fort was carried away by a flood and the island abandoned. In 1623 a more important fortification, named Fort Orange, was erected on the site afterwards covered by the business part of Albany. That year, "about eighteen families settled themselves at Fort Orange, under Adriaen Joris, who 'staid with them all winter,' after sending his ship home to Holland in charge of his son. As soon as the colonists had built themselves 'some huts of bark' around the fort, the Mahikanders or River Indians [Mohegans], the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas, with the Mahawawa or Ottawawa Indians, 'came and made covenants of friendship ... and desired that they might come and have a constant free trade with them, which was concluded upon.'" _J. R. Brodhead, History of the State of N. Y., volume 1, pages 55 and 151._ ALBANY, NEW YORK: A. D. 1630.- Embraced in the land-purchase of Patroon Van Rensselaer. See NEW YORK: A. D. 1621-1646. ALBANY, NEW YORK: A. D. 1664. Occupied and named by the English. See NEW YORK: A. D. 1664. ALBANY, NEW YORK: A. D. 1673. Again occupied by the Dutch. See NEW YORK: A. D. 1673. ALBANY, NEW YORK: A. D. 1754. The Colonial Congress and its plans of Union. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1754. ----------ALBANY, NEW YORK: End---------- ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY RAILROAD OPENING. See STEAM LOCOMOTION ON LAND. ALBANY REGENCY, The. See NEW YORK; A. D. 1823. ALBEMARLE, The Ram, and her destruction.