Miles Cobelitz ishte shqiptar !
Par Edward Upham
History of the Ottoman Empire: from its establishment, till the year 1828
Edward Upham - 1829
The soldier's name, worthy of eternal memory, was Miles Cobelitz. Knolles,
The confederacy comprised Hungary, Wallachia, Dalmatia, Servia, Croatia, and Albania; and the army thus supplied has been swollen to the estimate of five hundred thousand men, for it was, indeed, the grand struggle of Christendom, many warriors having joined their forces evenfrom Italy. Amurath repassed the Hellespont, and placing himself at the head of his army, he met this immense body in the plains of Cassovia, and voluntarily accepted the battle, which they boldly offered him. The conflict was terrible on both sides. The janizaries, fighting with equal courage and discipline, the spah is also, using their long lances adorned with streamers, made a great slaughter of the
Hungarian cavalry, who had no corslets or defensive armour to oppose their fatal onset. The battle became so fierce that the left wing of the Turkish army was put to flight, and the confederates already thought the victory to be won, when Bajazet, breaking in upon the Sclavonic line of battle with his characteristic fury, entirely turned the fortune of the day. Lazarus was slain in the fight, and the flower of the Christian forces was destroyed.
Amurath, being assured that the contest was over and the battle gained, alighted from his horse, and walked over the field. It was covered with vast mounds of the dead and dying. He remarked, with astonishment, that most of the dead bodies of the enemy were young men without beards. The Vizir replied to him in a manner calculated to please his prince, when the latter, continuing his discourse, said, " It is still more strange how I could be deceived by a vision last night in my sleep ; for methought I saw myself slain by the hand of an enemy.'' At that instant an Albanian, who lay biting the ground in the agony of death, being concealed among the dead, perceiving by the richness of his dress and the great respect paid to him by his followers, that he was the Sultan, animated by the thoughts of revenging his country, suddenly started up, and plunged his dagger into the victor's belly.* The Albanian was instantly cut into minute pieces in the presence of Bajazet; and Amurath, dying, was borne to his couch, where he survived but two hours.
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