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scription to our post of tower and mole, saving noexpense whatever; for we conjectured right, thatthere lay the safety of the city. Therefore a littlebefore midnight, the Turks burning with moreardour than ever, on the 13th of the Kalends ofJuly, attacked our principal position in the pro-foundest silence, assailing the entire length of ourfront, at the same time with one energetic simul-taneous rush; we however were not asleep, butwith erect ears. Finding it was the enemy, ourgreat guns began to vomit, our soldiers to gird ontheir swords, and every warlike implement show-ered from the tower and mole, to keep off theTurks, and hard did we fight, from midnight untilten o’clock. The Turks who in a considerablenumber from boats and triremes, had descended onthe mole, were every man of them killed. Theswimming bridge laden with them is broken, bythe shots from our heavy artillery, and down go allwho were upon it, and perish in the waves. Fourgalleys also, and the transports freighted with thegreat cannon and balls of stone, are fractured bythe discharges from our bastions, and sink. Thefire-ships advance against the infidel fleet, and forceit to recede. Thus was the Turkish retreat. Norin the brilliant action had not many of the mostrenowned of their captains fallen, whose lost was