After which the Fortress of Chioggia is disclosed, with a bivouac of the Genoese garrison.
But the Genoese fleet, though besieged in Chioggia, was impregnable, and their command of the land secured them from famine.
Were they the guns of Persano's long inactive fleet attacking some of Brondolo's or Chioggia's advanced forts?
The Genoese in their turn were now blockaded in Chioggia, and forced by famine to surrender.
Maruffo could do nothing, and on the 24th of June 1380 the defenders of Chioggia surrendered.
