 Sultan Mehmed II was furious and would have attacked the island again, but his death in 1481 put a stop to the attempt.The French , vice-chancellor of the Knights Hospitaller, was an eye-witness of the siege and wrote its description in his "Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio" (an English translation exists as a part of Edward Gibbon's "Crusades").An earlier English translation was the work of John Caius the Elder (printed 1481-84).