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Page viii
... forces - Permission asked to pass through Hungary - The king refuses - Godfrey accepts his invitation to visit him , and offers his brother and wife as hostages - His brother declines , and afterwards consents , to become a hostage ...
... forces - Permission asked to pass through Hungary - The king refuses - Godfrey accepts his invitation to visit him , and offers his brother and wife as hostages - His brother declines , and afterwards consents , to become a hostage ...
Page xii
... forces of Lewis arrive at Satalia - Their reception by the in- habitants - Hardships - Lewis ' resolution - Arrival at Antioch , and welcome by Raymond de Poitiers - Conduct of Queen Eleanor- Divorced by Lewis - The King of France and ...
... forces of Lewis arrive at Satalia - Their reception by the in- habitants - Hardships - Lewis ' resolution - Arrival at Antioch , and welcome by Raymond de Poitiers - Conduct of Queen Eleanor- Divorced by Lewis - The King of France and ...
Page 37
... forces amounted to 100,000 horse and foot , and were natives of Auvergne and Languedoc . Several Spanish adventurers joined his banners . He took a long farewell of his patrimony , being determined to devote the remainder of his life to ...
... forces amounted to 100,000 horse and foot , and were natives of Auvergne and Languedoc . Several Spanish adventurers joined his banners . He took a long farewell of his patrimony , being determined to devote the remainder of his life to ...
Page 43
... force or people . Godfrey invited Bohemond to visit him . Alexius grew alarmed , and so he proposed to the Crusaders to send them one of his sons as an hostage , while their chiefs paid him a visit . This proposal was accepted , and at ...
... force or people . Godfrey invited Bohemond to visit him . Alexius grew alarmed , and so he proposed to the Crusaders to send them one of his sons as an hostage , while their chiefs paid him a visit . This proposal was accepted , and at ...
Page 62
... force . The ditches around it were still in existence , and broken lances and bows strewed the ground . Every here and there was an altar to which the hapless women and helpless aged had fled , vainly hoping to be saved , but pursued by ...
... force . The ditches around it were still in existence , and broken lances and bows strewed the ground . Every here and there was an altar to which the hapless women and helpless aged had fled , vainly hoping to be saved , but pursued by ...
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