ABSTRACT
The Persians on seeing themselves masters of the bastion regarded the war as over and the fortress as taken; they first; concerned themselves with strengthening it, making some ramparts on the side facing the fortress from whence they could batter it, being protected by the two flankers of the wall; although our men raked them from the flanks with discharges of cannon and musketry which they fired at them all night long, whereby they harassed them in such a fashion that they could not fortify themselves as well as they had hoped.
