ISBN: 1231199881

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781231199886], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...By threats and cajolery, however, Baldwin afterwards persuaded them to accept his rule, and Tancred was obliged to depart, with a feeling of enmity which led to an armed collision between the adherents of the two Crusaders. Baldwin seems to have behaved throughout with treachery to the Christians of Tarsus, to his companion-in-arms, and to the Turkish garrison; but superior numbers enabled him to prevail over Tancred. After a sharp encounter, the two leaders came to an agreement. Baldwin returned to the grand army, and Tancred, augmenting his small force with a gang of pirates from Holland and France, who had lately been cruising in the Mediterranean, carried fire and sword throughout Cilicia. It was at Marascha, near the eastern extremity of Cilicia, that Baldwin rejoined the forces under Godfrey of Bouillon. They had had a long and most fatiguing march, and the country was so widely devastated by the Turks that the invaders suffered much from privation. Besides the dilfi. culties of the way, and the trials of insufficient food, the Christian hosts languished under the terrible heat of the climate, to which, as Northern men, they were entirely unaccustomed Many threw away their helmets and armour, and all were so much debilitated that, had the Turks ventured on an attack, they would probably have been successful. On gaining Marascha, the invaders rested for a time; but Baldwin did not long remain inactive. Being told by an Armenian prince that some rich countries lay on the other side of the Euphrates, and that a large Christian population was there oppressed by small Turkish garrisons, he orgamsed a body of troops, with which he entered Mesopotamia. His march was a continual success, and the people of Edessa begged his assistance in throwing off the Turki..., 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 4874, Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer, 4875, Aztec, 4878, Egypt, 4880, Greece, 4881, Incan, 4882, Mayan, 16252591, Mesopotamia, 15812131, Prehistory, 4883, Rome, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<