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It was a common opinion that our men should not have shut themselves up

in the Goletta, but should have waited in the open at the landing-place;

but those who say so talk at randoe of such

matters; for if in the Goletta and in the fort there were barely seven

thousand soldiers, how could such a small nuainst numbers like those of the enehold that is not relieved, above

all when surrounded by a host of determined enemies in their own country?

But ht so too, that it was special favour and

the destruction of that

source and hiding place of e, and moth of

countless money, fruitlessly wasted there to no other purpose save

preserving the memory of its capture by the invincible Charles V; as if

to make that eternal, as it is and will be, these stones were needed to

support it The fort also fell; but the Turks had to win it inch by inch,

for the soldiers who defended it fought so gallantly and stoutly that the

nueneral assaults exceeded

twenty-five thousand Of three hundred that remained alive not one was