Note (E) — THE HISTORY OF Solyman the Magnificent, and Mustapha his Son.

Belgrade (the ancient Alba Græca) built on the River Save, near its Fall into the Danube, is the Capital of Rascia, a Province of Hungary; it has often chang’d its Masters, though for many ages the Bulwark of the Christians against the Othomans. Amurath II. lost the best part of his Army before it. His Son Mahomet was forced to raise the Siege with infinite loss, by a Stratagem of the heroick John Huniades. He suffer’d a large Body of the Enemy to enter the Town, who immediately fell to plundering; in the mean time, he made a Tally upon the remaining Troops without, and put them to flight; then turning their own Cannon on the Plunderers, forced them to abandon the City, leaving their Tents, Baggage, Provision, and Ammunition behind them. In the Year 1521, it was taken by this Solyman, after a furious Siege of two Months. It remain’d in the hands of the Othomans, till the Year 1688, when the Imperialists took it by storm; fix hundred Christian Slaves were chain’d together, and by the Turks placed in a rank before them, who by that means secured themselves, as well as Christians from the furious Attacks of the Germans. It was retaken by the Turks two Years after, by an accidental Bomb falling into their Magazine of Powder, that near half the Garrison were destroy’d, with the Fortifications of the City. Pope Leo X. made it a Bishoprick.