 | George Finlay - Greece - 1861 - 404 pages
...being sold as slaves. Though they had no military leader, and were unable to take effectual measures for defending the monastery, they refused to lay down...also sought an asylum in the fine old monastery of Nea-Mone, which is about six miles from the city, secluded in the mountains towards the west. This... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1890 - 436 pages
...being sold as slaves. Though they had no military leader, and were unable to take effectual measures for defending the monastery, they refused to lay down...put all within to the sword. ' Two thousand persons also had sought an asylum in the fine old monastery of Nea Mone, which is about six miles from the... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1890 - 394 pages
...Turks carried the building by storm, and put all within to the sword. 'Two thousand persons also had sought an asylum in the fine old monastery of Nea...city, secluded in the mountains towards the west. The Turks stormed this monastery as they had done that of Aghios Minas. A number of the helpless inmates... | |
 | James Irving Manatt - Andros (Greece : Municipality) - 1914 - 480 pages
...being sold as slaves. Though they had no military leader, and were unable to take effectual measures for defending the monastery, they refused to lay down...building by storm, and put all within to the sword." A grim story in cold type; how much more grim as one reads it (as we did) in the great heap of skulls... | |
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... of hills which bounds the rich plain. The Turks surrounded the building and summoned them to surrender. The men had little hope of escaping death. The women and children were sure of being sold as slaves. Though they had no military leader, and were... 