Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 74 | The View more quotes about purpose">purpose of this was to place additional stresses on the supplies and stores of Mytilene. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 71 | On the same day, several hundred mercenaries, who had been landed earlier somewhere north of the harbor, moving overland, invested Mytilene. |
| 41 | 72 | On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned. |
| 41 | 73 | Surviving harbor personnel and the fleeing survivors of the attacked ships were funneled between contingents of the investing forces into Mytilene. |
| 41 | 74 | The purpose of this was to place additional stresses on the supplies and stores of Mytilene. |
| 41 | 75 | Following the entrance of these refugees into the town, the investing lines closed and Mytilene was encircled. |
| 41 | 76 | Predictably, Mytilene was encouraged to open its gates, with given assurances of lenience and mercy to the population. |
| 41 | 77 | This overture was refused by Thrasymedes and his council, apparently on two grounds, first, their terror of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar and their awareness of the merciless depredations inflicted in his name on several villages, such as Nicosia on Chios itself, and, second, the accounts of the harbor refugees of the unconstrained savagery and blood-thirstiness of the pillagers in the harbor. |
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On the same day, several hundred mercenaries, who had been landed earlier somewhere north of the harbor, moving overland, invested Mytilene.
On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned.
Surviving harbor personnel and the fleeing survivors of the attacked ships were funneled between contingents of the investing forces into Mytilene.
The purpose of this was to place additional stresses on the supplies and stores of Mytilene.
Following the entrance of these refugees into the town, the investing lines closed and Mytilene was encircled.
Predictably, Mytilene was encouraged to open its gates, with given assurances of lenience and mercy to the population.
This overture was refused by Thrasymedes and his council, apparently on two grounds, first, their terror of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar and their awareness of the merciless depredations inflicted in his name on several villages, such as Nicosia on Chios itself, and, second, the accounts of the harbor refugees of the unconstrained savagery and blood-thirstiness of the pillagers in the harbor.
- (Avengers of Gor)