The wall in many places was broken down, and at other points in the wall they had obtained a foothold, and the crescent was proudly unfurled to the breeze.

The feeble garrison, worn out with toil and perishing with famine, were in the last stages of despair.

Hunniades came down upon the Turkish flotilla like an inundation; both parties fought with almost unprecedented ferocity, but the Christians drove every thing before them, sinking, dispersing, and capturing the boats, which were by no means prepared for so sudden and terrible an assault.
The immense reinforcement, with arms and provisions, thus entered the city, and securing the navigation of the Danube and the Save, opened the way for continued supplies.

The immense hosts of the Mohammedans now girdled the city in a semicircle on the land side.

Their tents, gorgeously embellished and surmounted with the crescent, glittered in the rays of the sun as far as the eye could extend.