text:  A body of Turkish troops immediately entered by the breaches and mounted guard on the principal posts; but it was not till the 4th of October that the vizir made his triumphant entry at the head of his army (now reduced to about 15 000 regular troops and 11 000 pioneers and irregulars ) and proceeded bearing in his hand the sacred standard of the Prophet to the cathedral which was purified from the dead bodies interred within its walls and re-consecrated as a mosque