The history of Charles xii. king of Sweden, tr. by W.H. Dilworth |
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Seite 41 - Narva, they fell to plunder, and gave themfelves up to the moft enormous barbarities. The Czar ran From place to place to put a ftop to this diforder and maflacre. He was .even obliged to kill with his own hands feveral Afufcovites, who did not hearken to his orders.
Seite 78 - Janifaries who brought him fuch meflages ; and lent word that he ihould depend upon the Grand Signior's promife, and hoped to re-enter Poland as a conqueror with an army of Turks. After various intrigues at the Porte, an order was fent to attack this bead of iron, as he was called, and to take him either alive or dead.
Seite 138 - FrederirjbalL, a place of great ftrength and importance, which is reckoned to be the key of that kingdom. Charles fat down before it in the month of December.
Seite 75 - His ministers at the Porte excited the Turks to vengeance ; but the czar's money removed all difficulties, and Charles found himself in a manner prisoner among the Tartars.
Seite 139 - ... were carrying on the trenches by starlight, his body being exposed to a battery of cannon exactly levelled at the angle where he was, and no one being near him but two Frenchmen (Siker, his aide-de-camp, and...
Seite 75 - ... who) courted his favour, were all day in their boots. To difpofe the Ottoman Porte to this war, he detached about 800 Poles and Cofaques of his retinue, with orders to pafs the Neifter, that runs by Bender, and to obferve what pafled in the frontiers of Poland. The Mufcovite troops, difperfed in thofe quarters, fell immediately upon this little company, and pnrfued then» even to the territories of the Grand Signior.
Seite 78 - Czar, who had done him no injury ; but to fuccour the king of Sweden as an unfortunate prince in his dominions. He...
Seite 75 - Mufcovite troops, difperfed in thofe quarters, fell immediately upon this little company, and purfued them even to the territories of the Grand Signior. This was what the king expeéled.