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FAILUEE OF OTHEE ATTACKS 339 stubborn bravery of a comparatively small number of Greeks and Italians behind the hastily formed stockade and the battered, thousand-year-old walls were so far more than a match for the invaders. The success of the attackers was up to the present not Assaults more complete in other parts of the city. Zagan Pasha pLce^aiso had made desperate attempts to scale the walls near the fai1 west end of the Horn under cover of showers of arrows and other missiles from the ships and from large pontoons drawn up as near as possible to the walls, but had been defeated by Trevisano. Caraja Pasha, north of the Adria- nople Gate, had crossed the foss and made a vigorous attempt against the walls broken down by the cannon between that Gate and the Palace of Porphyrogenitus, now known as Tekfour Serai. 1 But that district, ' the high part of the Myriandrion,' 2 was held by the three brothers Bocchiardi, who had borne the cost of their men at their own charge, and who covered themselves, says Leonard, with eternal glory, fighting like Horatius Codes and his companions who kept the bridge of old. Their neighbours at Tekfour Serai and around the southern portion of Caligaria under the Venetian bailey Minotto, 3 had been equally successful. All the invaders' attempts had been defeated. Critobulus is justified in commenting with pride on the defeat of this second attack. * The Bomans, indeed, proved themselves very valiant ; for nothing could shake them, neither hunger nor want of rest, nor weariness from continuous fighting, nor wounds, nor the thought of the slaughter of their families which menaced them. Nothing could alter their determination to be faithful to their trust.' There remained but one more chance — on May 29 at least — of capturing the city by general assault. Two divisions had failed. But Mahomet noted that his plan of attack by successive divisions had greatly weakened the defenders at the stockade. He therefore decided to put forth all his strength and to send forward his reserves. 1 Crit. lvi. 2 Leonard : ' in loco arduo Myriandri.' 3 Pusculus, iv. 173, and Zorzo Dolfin, 55. z 2