The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629Smith, John
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The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629
Smith, John
Smith, John, 1580-1631; Voyages and travels
with their fresh Regiments seconded them with that fury, that the _Turks_
retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a Flag of truce they
desired composition. The Earl remembring his Fathers Death, battered it
with all the Ordnance in the Town, and the next day took it: all he found
could bear Arms, he put to the Sword, and set their Heads upon Stakes
round about the Walls, in the same manner they had used the _Christians,_
when they took it. _Moyses_ having repaired the Rampires, and thrown down
the Work in his Camp, he put in it a strong Garrison, though the pillage
he had gotten in the Town was much, having been for a long time an
impregnable den of Thieves; yet the loss of the Army so intermingled the
sowre with the sweet, as forced _Moyses_ to seek a farther revenge, that
he sacked _Veratio, Solmos,_ and _Kupronka,_ and with two thousand
Prisoners, most Women and Children, came to _Esenberg,_ not far from the
Princes Palace, where he there Encamped.
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{MN} Regal _assaulted and taken._
_Sigismundus_ coming to view his Army, was presented with the Prisoners,
and six and thirty Ensigns; where celebrating thanks to Almighty God in
triumph of those Victories, he was made acquainted with the service
_Smith_ had done at _Olumpagh, Stoll-Weissenburgh_ and _Regal;_ for which,
with great honour, he gave him three _Turks_ Heads in a Shield for his
Arms, by Patent, under his Hand and Seal, with an Oath ever to wear them
in his Colours, his Picture in Gold, and three hundred Ducats yearly for a
Pension.
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[Illustration: Smith's Coat of Arms]
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