text:  The leaguer of Candia was pushed during several months by the Turks animated by the courage and example of their general with the same fanatic zeal which they had displayed before Canea and Retimo; but the besieged whose tenure of Crete depended on this last stronghold held out with equal pertinacity: and their efforts were aided by the presence of a large body of Maltese auxiliaries as well as by the succours which the naval superiority of the Venetians enabled them continually to introduce by sea