text:  Great was the rejoicing throughout Europe at the tidings that the pride of the Ottoman battle had once more been driven back discomfited for the best and bravest of nearly every nation in Christendom were now to be found in the ranks of the defenders:[18] and great on the other hand was the perplexity of the divan and the chagrin of the Turkish population at the apparently endless duration of an enterprise a speedy and glorious termination of which had been expected from the presence of the vizir