Patricia Taylor
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"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God" - Tanakh Genesis 6:9 The ice in the foundation of the walls keeping it together with the Earth is now melting as the weather rises above the freezing point, making the liquid combined with blood, melted snow and under ground water sipping in to the surrounding soil mixing together and eventually making the soil softer than before. These liquids came in a tremendous amount due to the blood from the days of bloody battle…-
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"Silent enim leges inter arma - Laws are silent in times of war." - Cicero The war is back to its normal state after the two biggest Ottoman commander settled their disputes, the head of those Ottoman officers responsible for this are chopped off right in front of the crowd of naked soldiers giving a visual shock to every one on the spot as blood started spilling out like fountains right on to their feet and head rolling around. But they are already too exhausted shivering in the cold for too long, and…
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If a cavalry lost his mount, can he still be called a cavalry? If a Sipahi cavalry corps lost most of its horses, can it still be counted as a cavalry Corp? The answer is no. Actually it is only later after the Grand Vizier replaced the horses with hundreds of stronger slaves to pull these cursed walls down that Mahmud Pasha Angelović convinced himself that the Grand Vizier is not trying to minimise his troops, power and influence using the Rumelian fortresses as an excuse and whet stone. Thinking…
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"Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges." - Tacitus "Bey Suleyman reported that a peasant revolt in Epirus." "Let him suppress those rebels with his own garrison." The Grand Vizier waved his hands impatiently. "Yes, my honourable Grand Vizier…" The messenger continued reading the title of the letter and took a peek at the Grand Vizier. "This letter is about the current affairs in Anatolia." "Read." "It says that Zaganos Pasha has recovered the Sultan's cities of Gebze, Izmit, Sakarye, Düzce,…
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"Pati cum alio, pro aliis; pati propter veritatis et iustitiae amorem; pati ex amore et ut quisque persona efficiatur quae vere amet – haec sunt fundamentalia humanitatis elementa, quorum derelictio hominem ipsum deleret." "To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves—these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself." - LITTERAE ENCYCLICAE SPE SALVI…
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"Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır!" "There is no such thing called line of defense, but only territory of defense, for this whole territory is our entire mother nation!" - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of modern Turkey. Once several spots have been breached along the vast defense the rest of the stuff became pretty easy for the Ottoman offenders. Under the banners of war, waving flags, sounding of horns and thumping of drums this time the…
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"The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences." - The 44 th president of United States, Barrack Obama After so much hard time trying with perseverance the Ottoman infantries who are carrying the make shift wooden ladders finally arrived at the front line enduring showers of arrows and bolts under little or no support, with the only thing motivating them to advance forward being the supervising Sipahi calvaries right at their back. However, after they arrived…
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"Shame to all men, for how ungrateful is he! From what substance did is he created? From a sperm-drop. It is He who creates him, raised him, then provides nourishment for him, Then it is He who decides him to die, then puts him to a grave. Then, when He will, He revives him. But! Had he fulfilled what He had commanded him?" - Qu'ran 80 : 17-23 These political analysis by Antonius is almost certainly unthinkable for many captains and commanders standing on this platform as most of them are still…
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A volley of bolts is poured on to the executioners and the former Mega Doux, penetrating their bodies making their flesh burst open from the arrow head's impact, dropping end immediately ending the sufferings of Loukas Notaras, bringing along several Janissaries and the weird man in grey robes to accompany him on the path to either heaven or hell. But following the volley of arrows a series of things happened. According to the prior investigations by the Ottoman scouts this should be a safe distance from…
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"Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι οἷα ἡ πρόθεσίς ἐστιν ἀδικεῖν, παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ δικαία ἀπολογία ἰσχύει" (The Tyrant shall never fail to find an excuse to serve his tyranny) - The Wolf and The Lamb, Aesop. A man wearing a grey robe riding on a stallion horse is pulled by a Janissary to a safe distance beneath the walls, together with him there are two large wooden planks of a height slightly taller than an adult male. "What are…
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