. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ppeared more than once at the head of the invading armies.^n the year 739 the Saracen forces poured into Asia Minor in immense num-bers, with all their earlyenergy. Leo, who hadtaken the command of theByzantine army^ accom-panied by his son Con-stantine, marched to meetSid-al-Battal, whose greatfame rendered him themost dangerous battle took place atAcroinon, in the Anatolictheme, in which the Sara-cens were totally
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ppeared more than once at the head of the invading armies.^n the year 739 the Saracen forces poured into Asia Minor in immense num-bers, with all their earlyenergy. Leo, who hadtaken the command of theByzantine army^ accom-panied by his son Con-stantine, marched to meetSid-al-Battal, whose greatfame rendered him themost dangerous battle took place atAcroinon, in the Anatolictheme, in which the Sara-cens were totally valiant Sid, the mostrenowned champion of Is-lamism, perished on thefield; but the fame of hisexploits has filled manyvolumes of Moslem ro-mance, and furnishedsome of the tales that have adorned the memory of the Cid of Spain, threehundred years after the victory of Leo. The Western Christians have robbedthe Byzantine Empire of its glory in every way. After this defeat the Sara-cen power ceased to be formidable to the empire, until the energy of thecaliphate was revived by the vigorous administration of the Abbassides, whosucceeded the Omayyads in An Eighth Century Galley LEO THE ISAURIAN TO JOANNES ZIMISCES 20r> [] Leos victories over the Mohammedans were au indispensable step to theestablishment of his personal authority. But the measures of administrativewisdom which rendered his reign a new era in Roman history, are its mostimportant feature in the annals of the human race. KEVOLT AGAINST LEO The whole policy of Leos reign has been estimated by his ecclesias-tical reforms. These have been severely judged by all historians, and theyappear to have encountered a violent opposition from a large portion of hissubjects. The general dissatisfaction has preserved sufficient authentic in-formation to allow of a candid examination of the merits and errors of hispolicy. Leo commenced his ecclesiastical reforms in the year 726, by an edictordering al
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