Note 039
Near a hundred years after the siege of
Constantinople, the French and English fleets in the Channel
were proud of firing 300 shot in an engagement of two hours,
(Memoires de Martin du Bellay, l. x., in the Collection
Generale, tom. xxi. p. 239.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 68