Page 24 - 08 The Seven Trumpets

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
thirty thousand pounds of gold, — about five

million two hundred thousand pounds

sterling.... The fleet that sailed from

Constantinople to Carthage consisted of

eleven hundred and thirteen ships, and the

number of soldiers and mariners exceeded

one hundred thousand men.... The army of

Heraclius and the fleet of Marcellinus either

joined or seconded the imperial lieutenant....

The wind became favorable to the designs of

Genseric. He manned his largest ships of war

with the bravest of the Moors and Vandals,

and they towed after them many large barks

filled with combustible materials. In the

obscurity of the night, these destructive

vessels were impelled against the unguarded

and unsuspecting fleet of the Romans, who

were awakened by a sense of their instant

danger. Their close and crowded order