...fortresses, and the task of putting them into good order had commenced. There was no longer that supineness, that absolute security, which had hitherto marked...garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun — and in the second, had they possessed the requisite knowledge, the whole of the ordnance, with...

...no sooner found their loss than they quitted their battery in despair. The Turks, on the other hund, were not a whit more skilled than their enemies. In...garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun — and in the second, had they possessed the requisite knowledge, the whole of the ordnance, with...

...an open rupture had taken place, the mode of war- . fare between these two semi-barbarian people was strikingly characteristic. I offer a few anecdotes...garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun ; and in the second, had they possessed the requisite knowledge, the whole of the ordnance, with...

...down the wall which intervened between them and the Castle, and instantly commenced a vigorous lire. Had these little guns been directed even to the most...garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun ; and in the second, had they possessed the requisite knowledge, the whole of the ordnance, with...

...directed even to the most tottering- part of the fortress, they would scarcely have moved a etone ; but here, unfortunately, their battery was directly...and having no soldiers to instruct them, for there wns only a nominal garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun ; and in the second,...

...was directly opposed to a portion of the wall which the Turks had just repaired from the damage done by lightning. The consequence, as may easily be conceived,...garrison at Patrass, not a soul knew the management of a gun ; — and in the second, had they possessed the requisite knowledge, the whole of the ordnance,...

...busily employed at the guns, took deliberate aim from the embrasures, and shot him in the head as lie was in the act of stooping to load. This poor fellow...instruct them, for there was only a nominal garrison at Patras, not ft soul knew the management of a gun ; — and in the second, had they possessed the requisite...

...stooping to load. This poor fellow happened to be an Italian, and probably, therefore, more expert in gunnery than the Greeks. The latter no sooner found...In the first place, being merely the inhabitants of the town, and having no soldiers to instruct them, for there was only a nominal garrison at Patrass,...