text:  The serdar Delhi-Hussein who had for eleven years gallantly upheld the renown of the Ottoman arms in Crete withstanding with equal firmness the efforts of the enemy and the mutinous spirit of his own soldiers had been recalled early in 1656 to assume the vizirat; a fleeting glimpse of honour which though cancelled even before he reached Constantinople in favour of the Kaimakam Mustapha subsequently (as already related) cost him his life from the jealousy of Mohammed Kiuprili