Fancy-dress them old Crusaders wore, and alwiz kep' a band.
Two days later the crusaders came in sight of the Holy City, the object of their long pilgrimage, the cause of wretchedness and death to millions.
As their eyes rested on the scene hallowed to them through all the associations of their faith, the crusaders passed in an instant from fierce enthusiasm to a humiliation which showed itself in sighs and tears.
Without awaiting their nearer approach the crusaders turned on the enemy with a force and fury which were now irresistible.
Three months passed away, and thecrusaders found themselves not conquerors, but in desperate straits from famine.
On the fifth day, without siege instruments, with only one ladder, and trusting to mere weight, the crusaders made a desperate assault upon the walls.
It was rout, not retreat; and with the crusaders victory was followed by the massacre of men, women, and children.
The crusaders take Nicaea; the Eastern emperor Alexius, suspicious of the crusaders, obtains the city of Nicasa for himself.
The infidel was doomed; but the crusaders resolved to give him one chance of escape.
But the familiarity which arose from the presence of the crusaders on Greek soil ripened the seeds of mutual dislike and distrust.
The crusaders imported it into Europe; and poor Mary Stuart may have had this idea, or this feeling when she brought from France, and planted in her garden, the first sycamores which grew in Scotland.
The crusaders visited the spot as a place of pilgrimage; and the Abbé Orsini considers the first part of the story as authenticated; but the legend concerning the good thief he admits to be doubtful.
These German crusaders had already, after a quarter of a century's fighting, in 1224 gained possession of the regions inhabited by the southern portion of the race, that is those now included in Livonia.
The capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders had led to Aristotle's triumph in the thirteenth century.
As a result of the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in A.
The result was that, instead of opposition, the Hungarian prince gave him help, and escorted the Crusaders with a body of cavalry into the territories of Greece.
The wily emperor, in the meanwhile, obtained from his prisoner an oath of homage, hoping to induce the other Crusaders to follow the example.
The Crusaders advanced in excellent order, and, after twice routing the Turkish army of defence, commenced the siege.
The enthusiasm of the Crusaders from this moment was irresistible.
The Crusaders had no sooner obtained this signal success than they were in their turn besieged by an army raised by the Sultans of Mossoul and other cities.
Leaving Nice, the Crusaders advanced in two divisions, both without guides, and through a hostile and desert country.
After this success the Crusaders resolved to march in a single body, and thus prevent a recurrence of the hazard which they had escaped.
The embassadors were sent back with the answer that the Crusaders were on their march, and, if opposed, might extend their conquests even to the Nile.
A reinforcement of Italian Crusaders having arrived, it was suddenly attacked by a large Turkish force, and thrown into disorder.
During the first day the Crusaders were repulsed at every point; but on the morrow fortune turned.
The attack was commenced by a volley of arrows, followed by a charge of the Turkish and Arabian archers, which the Crusaders not only steadily sustained, but vigorously returned.
Phirous managed the perilous task of admitting the Crusaders with the utmost adroitness.
Nevertheless as time passed the Crusaders fared somewhat better, for they drew more together, and the enemy, seeing that they still held their ground, and being themselves not a little weary, drew back.
The Crusaders and the Saracens fought with mace and sword, neither keeping their ranks, but all being confused together.
He sternly sent them back to their general, telling them that the Crusaders had themselves given the signal for the war, and that he could see in them nothing but enemies.
The Crusaders had soon cause to repent of their determination.
As long as the Crusaders were upon the French territory, the charity of the faithful who were on their route provided for their wants.
Jerusalem, which had cost the Crusaders so much blood, falls again into the power of the infidels, and becomes the conquest of a wise and warlike prince, who had united under his banner the forces of Syria and Egypt.
In vain the Crusaders from the southern provinces endeavoured to substitute for it the ring and cross of of Adhemar; they attracted neither the devotion nor the offerings of the pilgrims.
The solitary advised the Crusadersto march round Jerusalem, invoking the mercy and protection of Heaven.
Tatius, the general of Alexius, quitted the camp of the Crusaderswith the troops he commanded, promising to return with reinforcements and provisions.
In this glorious day the loss of the Crusaders was much less than that of the Mussulmans; their leaders and soldiers displayed a degree of skill that they had never evinced before.
Of the Crusaders themselves each man became a hero, and nothing could stand before their impetuous charge.
In this disposition of the general mind, the Crusaders looked with impatience for the decision of the council which was to give a king to Jerusalem.
The bodies of several of the Crusaders hung at the gates of Semlin, which the historians of the crusades call Malleville,[53] attracted his regard and drew forth his indignation.
The Crusaders despised everything they could not carry with them; the productions of the earth were sold at a low price, which all at once brought back abundance even in the midst of scarcity.
After the surrender of Acre, and the departure of Philip, the king of England led the crusaders to the recovery of the sea-coast; and the cities of Cæsarea and Jaffa were added to the fragments of the kingdom of Lusignan.
Footnote 67: For the first siege and conquest of Constantinople, we may read the original letter of the crusaders to Innocent III.
But that price far exceeded the wealth of the crusaders who were assembled at Venice.
On the tenth day of their encampment at Scutari, the crusaders prepared themselves, as soldiers and as Catholics, for the passage of the Bosphorus.
The crusaders considered themselves under an obligation to fulfil this prophecy.
A contemporary writer, Otto of Friesingen, explains that Godfrey of Bouillon was placed at the head of the crusaders because, "brought up on the frontier between romanized and Teutonic people, he knew both languages equally well.
The Crusaders saw the bitter orange tree in Palestine.
Turn to the statistics of the vice crusaders if you doubt it.
There was nothing for us to do in Samaria but buy handfuls of old Roman coins at a franc a dozen, and look at a dilapidated church of the Crusaders and a vault in it which once contained the body of John the Baptist.
But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty.
Having taken the disease which the Crusadersbrought back from the East, they were favoured with a religious ceremony distressingly similar to the office for the dead.
The crusaders were again compelled to endure the outrages and perfidies of the Greek.
He threw himself into violent but futile opposition to LaFontaine and rallied these fiery young crusaders about him.
Others, that the belief was imported into Europe by the Crusaders from the East, as Fairies somewhat resemble the Oriental Genii.
We left off with the Crusaders victorious in the Holy Land, and the Seljukian Sultan, the cousin of Malek Shah, driven back from his capital over against Constantinople, to an obscure town on the Cilician border of Asia Minor.
When at length they had crossed over into Asia, the Crusaders found themselves without the means of sustenance.
I should observe that the Turks were driven out of Jerusalem by the Fatimites of Egypt, two years before the Crusaders appeared.
At the time when the army of the crusaders appeared before the walls of Jerusalem the Hospital of St. John was presided over by Gerard, a native of Provence, a man of great uprightness and of exemplary piety.
We may, from this account, perceive that the Crusaders had a tolerably clear idea of the nature and constitution of the society of the Assassins.
This is to be noted as the first collision between the Crusaders and the Assassins, as we shall now begin to call them.
A chief cause of the extraordinary success of the first Crusaders had been the want of union among their enemies.
The appearance of the Ismailites, under their new form of organization, in Syria, happened at the same time with that of the crusaders in the Holy Land.
The Crusaders sailed for Zara and regained that city for the Venetian Republic.
Bohemund, the Italo-Norman Count of Tarentum, lodged here while the Crusaders negotiated with Alexius I.
The Crusaders should assemble at Venice on the feast of St. John in the following year.
The Latin dynasty put into power by the crusaders was sinking lower, and a feeling for the restitution of the Greek Empire was growing.
In the camp of the Crusaderswas young Alexius, son of Isaac Angelus.
The Crusaders landed at Chalcedon, and from Scutari sailed into the Golden Horn.
Then the Crusaders with all their fruitless sufferings, their lavish shedding of blood and treasure, and the masses of private iniquity which they died trusting to expiate by public sacrifice.
Instead of rolling like a vast stream across Europe, helping themselves to what they wanted in the name of the Cross, gathering strength in numbers and losing it in cohesion, these new crusaders held a counsel.
After a long deliberation, it was decided in the council of the Crusaders that the proposals of Alexius should be accepted, and that the Christian army should embark for Constantinople at the commencement of spring.
The people of Corfu were not tardy in following this example, and received the Crusaders as liberators: the acclamations of the Greek people, in the passage of the Latins, was a happy augury for the success of their expedition.
The same Crusaders proclaimed loudly, that God had been unfavourable to the Christians, because those whom he had appointed to lead the defenders of the cross, disdained the conquest of Jerusalem.
The Crusaders only “remembered to be pious and penitent” when they experienced reverses.
The Crusaders under the command of the archbishop of Mayence and Valeran de Limbourg, were the first to arrive in Palestine.
As a crowning misfortune, the reverses or exploits of the Crusaders beyond the seas frequently created divisions among the princes of the West.
As violent passions are never at a loss for motives of self-justification, or for excuses for their excesses, the Crusaders were accused of perfidy, treachery, and all the crimes that they themselves contemplated against them.
Dandolo told the envoy of Innocent, that the Christian army stood in no need of leaders to conduct it, and that the legates of the sovereign pontiff ought to content themselves with edifying the Crusaders by their examples and discourses.
Returning pilgrims and crusaders (First Crusade, 1099) also began to ask for an explanation of the doubts which had come to them from the contact with Greek and Arab in the East.
The relations of the eastern and western enemies of the Turks were well illustrated when the crusaders besieged their first town, Nicæa.
The conduct of many of the crusaders indicates that the pope found a ready hearing among this class.
It was from him that they derived their name of Ottoman Turks, to distinguish them from the Seljuk Turks, with whom the crusaders had come into contact.
Upon the arrival of the crusaders at Constantinople it quickly became clear that they had little more in common with the Greeks than with the Turks.
All through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries each generation beheld at least one great army of crusaders gathering from all parts of the West and starting toward the Orient.
The news of these Christian victories quickly reached the West, and in 1101 tens of thousands of new crusaders started eastward.
The first of these was diverted in an extraordinary manner by the Venetians, who induced the crusaders to conquer Constantinople for their benefit.
The crusaders came into contact with those who knew more than they did, above all the Arabs, and brought back with them new notions of comfort and luxury.
The chiefs induced the great body of the crusaders to postpone the march on Jerusalem, and a year was spent in taking the rich and important city of Antioch.
Many of the crusaders were slaughtered by the Hungarians, who rose to protect themselves from the depredations of this motley horde.
In the thirteenth century the crusaders began to direct their expeditions toward Egypt as the center of the Saracen power.
The first real allies that the crusaders met with were the Christian Armenians, who brought them aid after their terrible march through Asia Minor.
For the highly developed civilization which the crusaders found in Constantinople, Munro, Mediæval History, Chapter X.
Their merchants, as we have seen, supplied the destitute crusaders with the material necessary for the conquest of Jerusalem.
The privileges of thecrusaders may be found in Translations and Reprints, Vol.
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