The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07: England's Naval Exploits Against SpainHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07: England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
3 How the lord great master consulted with the lordes for prouision
of the towne
4 Of the prouision for vitailes and ordinance of warre
5 How a Brigantine was sent to Candie for wine, and of diuers ships
that came to helpe the towne
6 How the corne was shorne downe halfe ripe and brought into the
towne for feare of the Turkes hoste
7 How the great master caused generall musters to be made, and sent a
vessell to the Turkes nauie, of whom he receiued a letter
8 The copie of the letter that the great Turke sent to the lord great
master, and to the people of the Rhodes
9 How the Turkes came to land in the Isle of Lango, and were driuen
to their ships againe by the Prior of S. Giles
10 How part of the nauie and armie of the great Turke came before the
citie of Rhodes
11 The number and names of the vessels that came to besiege Rhodes
12 How the lord great Master made his petition before the image of S.
Iohn and offered him the Keyes of the towne
13 How the women slaues would haue set fire to the towne
14 How the Turkes layd their artillerie about the towne, and of the
maner and quantitie of their pieces and gunshot
15 How the captaine Gabriel Martiningo came to the succor of Rhodes,
and all the slaues were in danger to be slaine
16 How the great Turke arriued in person before Rhodes
17 Of the marueilous mounts that the Turks made afore the towne, and
how the Captaines were ordered in the trenches
18 Of the politike repaires and defences that the ingenious Captaine
Gabriel Martiningo made within the towne against the breaches in
the walles
19 Of the mines that the Turks made: and how they ouerthrew part of
the bulwarke of England
20 How the Turks assailed the bulwarke of England, and how they were
driven away
21 How Sir Iohn Brough Turcoplier of England was slaine at an assault
of the English bulwarke
22 Of the terrible mine of the posterne of Auuergne
23 How the bulwarke of Spaine was lost and woone again
24 How the great Turke for anger that he could not get the towne,
would have put his chiefe captaine to death, and how they made 11
mines vnder the bulwarke of England
25 How the Turks were minded to haue gone their way, and of the
traitours within the towne, and of many great assaults
26 How the enemies assailed the posternes of Prouence and Italy, and
how they were driven away
27 How the treason of Sir Andrew de Merall was knowen, and of the
maruellous assaults that the Turks made
28 How the Turks got the plaine ground of Spaine
29 How a Geneuois came to the gate of the towne for to speake for a
treaty and deliuerance of the same
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