| The Arsenal of Venice is the dockyard
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| | It would also deliver into the hands of
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| where for century after century the
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| | the patriots a magazine full of muskets
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| fighting navies of the Republic were
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| | and swords which they so desperately
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| built, laid up and repaired. Thence the
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| | needed, together with several warships
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| galleys rowed out that captured
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| | docked there, and the stores required by
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| Constantinople and humbled the pride of
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| | those which were anchored in the port
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| Genoa, and thither the decked battleships
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| | outside. In the existing state of feeling
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| returned from the last struggles with the
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| | among the naval officers and crews, the
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| Turk in the Grecian seas. The Arsenal was
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| | revolution, if it won the Arsenal, would
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| the office and workshop equally of Vettor
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| | win all the ships in the lagoon. The real
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| Pisani and the seamen of the heroic age,
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| | strength of the fleet capable of
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| of those who fought at Lepanto, and of
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| | commanding the Adriatic lay,
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| the heavy-wigged Admirals of later times
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| | unfortunately, at Pola, but the few ships
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| whose monuments occupy such large areas
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| | in the lagoon could decide the immediate
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| of wall-space in ecclesiastical Venice.
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| | fate of Venice. His chief urged him not
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| This work-a-day memorial of the naval
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| | to return. But he was a fearless man and
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| supremacy of the past is still in use,
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| | on the morning of the 22nd, encouraged by
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| and is still surrounded by its high,
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| | the presence of Croat troops outside the
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| ancient wall of red brick. The main
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| | Lion Gate, he appeared once more in the
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| entrance consists of a canal for ships,
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| | office overhead. As fast as the news of
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| and beside it a gateway for pedestrians,
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| | his return spread, the Arsenalotti
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| adorned in the Renaissance style of the
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| | gathered in an angry crowd. Martini,
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| fifteenth century; the steps of the
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| | hoping to appease them, sent the Croats
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| gateway are guarded by a group of
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| | away from the gate back to the Isolotto.
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| classical deities and by colossal stone
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| | He should have sent Marinovich under
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| lions brought from the Piræus. This used
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| | their escort, for that unfortunate
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| to be the only entrance, but in
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| | officer was now left at the mercy of the
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| Napoleon's time a second passage, for
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| | mob. Antonio Paolucci, one of Manin's
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| shipping only, had been pierced in the
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| | fellow-conspirators, did his best to
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| wall on the further side of the Arsenal
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| | avert the tragedy. He and another Italian
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| that opens direct into the lagoon; beside
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| | officer smuggled Marinovich out of the
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| the Porta Nuova, as it is called, there
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| | office into a covered gondola rowed by
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| rises a high tower. Manin saw in the
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| | four oars, and sped with him across the
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| Arsenal the key to the success or failure
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| | docks towards the Porta Nuova half a mile
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| of the revolution he meditated. Its
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| | away.
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| capture would have a great moral effect.
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