Volume 2

Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the state of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the late war with Russia : with numerous anecdotes, facts, and observations, on the manners and customs of the Turks and Tartars ... / [François Tott].

  • François Baron de Tott
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the state of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the late war with Russia : with numerous anecdotes, facts, and observations, on the manners and customs of the Turks and Tartars ... / [François Tott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lefs than a quarter of an hour the Piece was laid upon the Platform. It was ftill to be placed on its Carriage, when Haffan, not thinking my llx Sailors fufEcient for fuch an Undertaking, offered me again the affiftance of his Attendants. P'or what purpofe? faid 1; four of my People will be fufficient. I immediately fent for a Gin that I had caufed to be made, the ufe of which Machine was un- ^known to the Turks. Nothing could furpafs their aftonifliment when they faw this prodigious Weight railed, with eafe, by the ftrength of only four Men j and this, though not very remarkable in itfelf, had a great effed: on Haffan and his Com- panions. It has been already faid, that the Ruffian Squadron, removing out of the reach of my red hot Balls, was gone to the Siege of Lemnos} yet few nights pafh in which Terror, that always fees what it fears, did not occahon fome Alarm 5 and as foon as the Cannon of the firft Caftles, which pour- ed forth their' Balls on every Phantom the Guards imagined they faw, were heard, thofe