The Death of a Turk

Godfried von kambak was a figure out of the past. In his rusty chain mail, old fashioned harness picked up and slovenly pieced together he seemed like a figure from another generation. He heard that salm had 20 thousand pikemen, two thousand horsemen and one thousand volunteer citizens to oppose saliman's horde along with 70 guns, cannons, demi cannons and calverins. The news of the turk's numbers numbed all hearts with dread. All but von cambaks who discovered a conscience in ale. At last he rose unsteadily and took up his great sword, muzzily, intent on challenging count psalm to a duel