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Page 49
... hundreds of Normans to return southwards with them ; and so accordingly a party was organ- ized , which in due time landed at Palermo ; and the Sicilian people little knew who they were in- viting , for from guests those Norman ...
... hundreds of Normans to return southwards with them ; and so accordingly a party was organ- ized , which in due time landed at Palermo ; and the Sicilian people little knew who they were in- viting , for from guests those Norman ...
Page 50
... hundred Norman gentlemen who followed Reinolf to Italy were Bohemond , Hardomin , Roger , and Herman , and the three sons of a poor but brave gentleman of Coutance called Tancred de Haute- ville , who were the eldest of his family of ...
... hundred Norman gentlemen who followed Reinolf to Italy were Bohemond , Hardomin , Roger , and Herman , and the three sons of a poor but brave gentleman of Coutance called Tancred de Haute- ville , who were the eldest of his family of ...
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... hundred thousand strong . The peasantry of the benighted lands through which they passed , fled to their mountains , terrified at such vast hosts , and only met them to attack them ruthlessly . Count Raymond revenged these assaults on ...
... hundred thousand strong . The peasantry of the benighted lands through which they passed , fled to their mountains , terrified at such vast hosts , and only met them to attack them ruthlessly . Count Raymond revenged these assaults on ...
Page 60
... hundred thousand , at least , who overspread the plains of Nice , one - seventh of whom must have been knights in mail armour , the remainder foot soldiers , forming the main line of the army . It was on the 5th of May 1097 that Godfrey ...
... hundred thousand , at least , who overspread the plains of Nice , one - seventh of whom must have been knights in mail armour , the remainder foot soldiers , forming the main line of the army . It was on the 5th of May 1097 that Godfrey ...
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... hundred and eighteen bishops , A.D. 315 , who composed the creed that we call Nicene , and settled the time for holding Easter . It was a beautiful city , in the middle of vast plains , watered by clear and lovely streams running down ...
... hundred and eighteen bishops , A.D. 315 , who composed the creed that we call Nicene , and settled the time for holding Easter . It was a beautiful city , in the middle of vast plains , watered by clear and lovely streams running down ...
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