Excerpt from L'Abbesse de CastroSoldats défendre l'île de Candie contre les Turcs. Mais la sagesse vénitienne savait bien qu'une peste meurtrière régnait à Candie, et en quelques jours les cinq cents soldats que Sciarra avait amenés au service de la république furent réduits à soixante - sept.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.