GENERAL HIST OF EUROPE FROM TH
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The death of Pope Leo X suspended awhile the operations of the war in Italy. Cardinal Adrian, of Utrecht, Charles's preceptor, who at that time governed Spain in the character of viceroy, was raised to the Papacy. He is known by the name of Adrian VI. 1522. -- The war was renewed to the still greater disadvantage of Francis than before. While the christian princet were thus wasting each other's strength, Solyman the Magnificent entered Hungary and made himself master of Belgrade, reckoned the chief barrier of that kingdom against the Turkish power. Encouraged by this success, he turned his victorious arms against the Isle of Rhodes, then the seat of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and although every prince in that warlike age acknowledged Rhodes to be the principal bulwark of christendom in the Levant, so violent was their animosity against each other, that they suffered Solyman. to carry on his operations against that city and island, which yielded to his arms after a most gallant defence in a siege of six months. Charles and Francis were equally ashamed of having occasioned through their contests such a loss to the christian world; and the Emperor, by way of reparation, granted to the Knights of St. John the small Island of Malta, where they fixed their residence. Adrian VI, though devoted to the Emperor, endeavoured to assume the impartiality which became the common father of christendom, and laboured, in vain, to reconcile the contending princes, that they might unite in a league against Solyman. 1523. -- The confederacy against France became more formidable than ever. The Venetians, who h...
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