A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . oland (Fig. 171^, and destroying Lublin and Cracow,it advanced to Silesia. The citizens of Breslau had burned theirhomes, and fled to the island in the Oder with their treasures. Butthe neighboring districts armed themselves, and a crusade waspreached against the terrible foe. Messengers hurried over the Alpsto advise the emperor Frederick II. of the danger. They met himnear Rome. Even now Gregory IX. did not relinquish his deadlyenmity, and rejected the emperors offers which were to free him fur 392 TUE C
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . oland (Fig. 171^, and destroying Lublin and Cracow,it advanced to Silesia. The citizens of Breslau had burned theirhomes, and fled to the island in the Oder with their treasures. Butthe neighboring districts armed themselves, and a crusade waspreached against the terrible foe. Messengers hurried over the Alpsto advise the emperor Frederick II. of the danger. They met himnear Rome. Even now Gregory IX. did not relinquish his deadlyenmity, and rejected the emperors offers which were to free him fur 392 TUE CONQUESTS OF THE ^rONaOLS AND TURKS. the delivery of Germany; yet that country escaped seemingly in-evitable destruction. The lieroic Duke Henry the Pious of Silesiagave battle at Liegnitz on April 9, 1241; and though he was de-feated, the Mongols did not push their invasion. The energy ofthe resistance, and the impregnability of the fortresses, and per-haps the fear of only scanty booty, took the zest of the contest fromthem. In consequence they retreated througli Bohemia and ISIora-. FiG. 109. — Supposed grave of YaioslalT in the Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kieff. via, where they met severe losses at Olmütz, and joined Hatusarmy in Hungary. He, too, gave up the war. For meanwhile liisuncle Oktai had died in Karakoram. Thereupon his Christian wifehad placed her own son, Kayuk, on the throne instead of the kingseldest one. Batu now settled in his new capital. Serai, in Kiptchak,and ruled thence his vast empire in Europe and Asia. It embracedtiie greater part of European Russia, together with Siberia. Batumade his will felt also in the original Mongolian kingdom, by KUBLAI KHAN AND THE MONGOLIAN EMPIRE. 393 enthroning Mangu as khan in Karakoram after the death ofKayuk. The result was a new rise of the Mongolian jjower, which re-sulted in a new march of conquest toward the east and the Mangus brother, Kublai Khan, the Mongols subjugated thesouthern half of China, hither
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