Aehmat, 5 p # Emperour of the Turfy

8 7 2 Achmat, eighth Emperour of the Turfy.
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and Goitre,
overthrown
by
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of Aleppo.
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of Tripolis
the fecond
tine overthrown
by
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of Aleppo.
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-taken and
rifled to
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of Aleppo.
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of
Natalia's
Lieutenant
with his
Army difcomficcd
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foot Aleppo.
overthrown, and in liirCicjrbcficged^ glad to
' make Peace with the other Baffa, by yielding unro
all fuch things as it pkafed him to demand.
Which two Balfaes for all that being diverfly affected
unro the State, long agreed nor, he of Damafia
continuing faithful in his Allegiance towards
the Great Sultan, and the other of Aleppo
fecretly inclining unto Rebellion. Whiehthc Baffa
of Vumafco perceiving, and joyning unto him
the Baflacs of Tripoli* and Gazare, with their united
Forces went againft the Baffa of Aleppo, leading
with them 60000 good men, with purpofe to
have befieged the BaiTa of Aleppo, his Enemy, in
.his City. But he betimes advertifed of tbjs hisDefign,
and not unprovided for his coming, quickly
called together his Forces, and had in very fhort
time raifed an Army of thirty thoufand valiant
men", whom he encouraging, and finding them
willing to follow him whithetfoever he would
lead them,-marched directly towards his Enemies;
with whom he meeting, readily joyned Battel with
them, which was fought With fuch fury and hideous
noife, as if it had been two thunder-claps
oppofing each orber in one Cloud, fttiving of
rnemfelves which fhould burft out firft, being like
People, like Arms, and like order of fight. The
medley for a great time continued (harp and furious,
the number of the one fide countervailing
the valour of the other, and the others valour
ballancing the others great number5 howbeft in
the end the one Baffa overcame the other three,
and the {mailer number the greater, and putting
them to flight, remained Cole Victors of the Field.
Now the victorious Baffa, as wife to ufe the Victory,
as he was valiant to obtain the fame, (b
eagerly purfued them, that without giving them
leave to breath, he befieged Tripoli*, the Baffa
whereof at his coming abandoned the fame, and
carrying with him all his Treafure, fled into Cyprus
\ which made the taking of the Place unto
the victorious Baffa eafie, who rifled and rabfacked
the fame; and not content with this Conqueft,
forthwitlf befieged the great and firong City of
Vamafco, refolved to die in the Plains thereof, or
to become Victorious within the Walls of the fame.
During which Siege, the Baffa of Tripolis had out
of the Provinces and Countries of the Turks thereabouts,
raifed another great Army, and was coming
to raife the Siege, and to refcue the City.
Whereof the Baffa of Aleppo hearing, rofe with
the greateft part of his Army, and meeting with
him, gave him battel, and therein the fecond
time overthrew him and put him to flight- Which
misfortune fo difmayedrhe Minds of the befieged,
that defpairing of all Succour and Relief, they, by
content of their Governour,fell to Parley with the
Enemies, and fo upon certain Capitulations yielded
unto him the Place. Whereinto the Baffa earring,
found therein great Treafure, raifed of the
Turks Tributes, whereupon he feifed, and by the
means thereof refolved to make himfelf mafler of
all Syria* the chief City whereof he had now in
his own Power \ whereunto he gave free Acccfs
and Traflick unto all the Metchants of Pfrfia, and
of the Indies.
Now in the time of this his Profperity, News i
was brought him, That the Begierbeg of NatoSa
had fent his Lieutenant with a great Armv againft
him ; who, knowing that Diligence was the Spirit
of Cbnqueft, and that to conquer was to little
purpofe, without a vigilant care for the Preservation
thereof, reftcd not upon his former good Fortune,
but marched directly towards his Enemies.
Wherein his Succefs was anfwerable unto his Defign,
for within the (pace of two days he had taken
all the Paffaces which might give wav unto his
Enemies to diftrefs him •, and in the ftraights of the
Mountains, whereby the Enemy was to | layed
a great Ambufh of two thoufand Harquebufiera
and three thoufand Hbrfe,%feo the Enemies being
paffed, and he charging them a head, let upon
them id the Rcrewaid, and broughtfuch a fear
upon tbcm, that having made a great fighr, in
fine, they having loft a number of Men* were glad
to flic, and to leave the Viewy to the Baffa. And
to the increafing of his good haps, he intercepted
a Ship, caft by Weather upon that Coaft, laded
with great Treafure, bound from Alexandria to
Confttitftlmple, with the Tributes of Egypt, belonging
to the Great Sultan. Of all which things the
Tertian King advertifed, fought to joyn with him
in Amityy highly commending his valiant Acts',
and fending unto him honourable Prelcnts; to
wir, a Piftol,'-an Helmet, and a Targuet, oil fee
with pretious Stones, efteetned to be worth fifty
thoufand Crowns. This Flame of Rebellion fprcd
abroad "oat of Syria irate Caramania, and fo farther
and farther into the leffer Afia. Which was
the caufc that the Great Sultan fent with all fpeed
unto the Vificr Baffa, then in Hungary $ commanding
him, now that Strigonium was taken, which
before had hindered the concluding of Peace, he
fliould now upon reafbnable Conditions conclude
the fame, to the end, that his Affairs on this fide
of his Empire being fet in quiet and fecurity, he
might -forthwith after turn his Forces againft the
ferfians and the Rebels in Afia.
1605
Bur after all thefe great Troubles, to return
again into Hungary. The Rebels there had of long
befieged the thong Town oiNewbufe, as is before
declared; which being hitherto valiantly defended
by the German Ga'rrifbn? therein, was now
brought to fuch Extremity, as that it was thought
almoft impoflible to be longer defended, the Garrifon
Souldiers therein being with often Affaults
tor the moil part flain, and the reft of them that
were left grievoujQy wounded. Of which firong
Town (being as it were the Key of that fide of
the Country) the Turks, which together with
the Rebels befieged the fame, were, for the commodious
Scituation thereof very defirous; and the
Rebels thereunto as unwilling, for that it being
once in their band* would hardly ever be again
from them recovered. For which caufe IlU^dfeimi
one of the Captains of the Hungarian Rebels,then
at the Siege thereof, perceiving it could not long
be kept, to the intent that the Turks fliould not
by force obtain the fame, by Letters requeued of
Bafia the Emperours Lieutenant, though then his
Enemy, That the Town might be delivered ufi
to Humanoim. another Captain of the Hungarian
Rebels, left the Turks fliould by force obtain the
fame; alluring him upon the Peril of his own Life,
and the Confiscation of all his Goods to the Emperour,
that upon a Reconciliation and Peace to
be made betwixt the Emperour and the Hungarians
his Subjects, he (hould again deliver the fame
Town and Forrrefs into his Poflcffion. Wheteup- Newhufe
on by commandment of the Arch-duke, and of yielded
Bafta, the Town was yielded up the feventeenth ""«>*?
day of the Month of Ottokr, unto the aforcfaid %£!£"
Humanoius, and the Hungarians only received into
the Town ; yet with this Condition, That the
German Souldiers which were yet left, and who
had valiantly thus long endured the Siege, might
ft ill ftay in the Town in Pay, and keep watch and
ward together with the reft of the Hungarians, Humanoitu
having command over them all.
Wherefore the Turks, feeing themfelves difappointed
of their Purpofe, for the obtaining of this
ftrong Town, rifing by Night, and not a little
discontented with the Hungarians, marched towards
Strigonium, at the Siege whereof the Vifier
Baffa lay. Howbcit within a few days after, the
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