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- Mustafa had personally humbled the Knights of Saint John at Rhodes, in ’22, when only the august mercy of the youthful Suleiman had spared the Order from annihilation. The dogs had rewarded this beneficence with forty years of terror, inflicted for the most part on Moslem pilgrims and merchants.
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- The execution was a barbarous insult, which Abbas had taken for bravado at the time. But when the gates of the fortress swung open and a throng of knights clanked forth to wade with sword and mace among the janissaries, this illusion had been banished. The Hounds of Hell had attacked with such rabid savagery that it seemed that the janissaries would have no choice but to retreat.
- -TR, pg. 193-196
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