1522: Siege of Rhodes by Vertot
Source: “The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem …”, Volume 3, translated from the French of M. Abbé de Vertot, 1770. P 165. https://books.google.ca/books?id=acINAAAAQAAJ&pg=165 That young Prince (Suleiman) had just made himself master of Belgrade. The happy success of that siege made him expect the like against the city of Rhodes; and besides, the desire of acquiring glory by such an important conquest, he was alto induced to it by the continual complaints of his trading subjects, who were often taken by the knights; and especially by the remonstrances of the mufti, who was continually representing to him, that those Christian capers disturbed the pilgrimages to Mecca, and that he was obliged in conscience to put a stop to their cruisings. Suleiman was very zealous for his religion, and well enough disposed to turn his arms that way; but as he was a wise prince, and never engaged in any enterprise without communicating it to his ...