Note 185 — Chapter I · —How the King of France cajoled the English after the Duke of Burgundy’s Death, for fear they should have interrupted him in the Conquest of the Territories belonging to the said Duke.—1477. (continued 2)
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The siege of Constantinople began on the 6th of April, 1453, and the city was taken on the 29th of May following.—See Gibbon’s Roman Empire, chap. 68.