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and made prisoner the most renowned of theirgenerals, who possessed the double advantageof ground and numbers. The approach of win-ter, and the natural and artificial obstacles ofmount Haem us, arrested the progress of thehero, who measured a narrow interval of sixdays march from the foot of the mountains to thehostile towers of Adrianople , and the friendlycapital of the Greek empire. The retreat wasundisturbed; and the entrance into Buda wasat once a military and religious triumph. Anecclesiastical procession was followed by theking and his warriors on foot: he nicely balancedthe merits and rewards of the two nations; andthe pride of conquest was blended with the hum-ble temper of Christianity . Thirteen bashaws,nine standards, and four thousand captives, wereunquestionable trophies; and as all w-ere willingto believe, and none were present to contradict,the crusaders multiplied, with unblushing confi-dence, the myriads of Turks whom they hadleft on the field of battle/ Themostsolid proof,and the most salutary consequence of victorywas a deputation from the divan to solicit peace,to restore Servia, to ransom the prisoners, and toevacuate the Hungarian frontier. By this treaty,the rational objects of the war were obtained :the king, the despot, and fluniades himself, inthe diet of Segedin, were satisfied with publicand private emolument; a truce of ten years w'as

T In their letters to the emperor Frederic III, the Hungarians stay300,000 Turks in one battle ; but the modest Julian reduces the slaugh-ter to 0000, or even 2000 infidels (iEncas Sylyiua in Europ. c. 6, andepist. 44, 81,apud Spondanunt).