A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ^ one of the most zealous, and therefore the most effectiveand best-known, of the missionaries who preached the cross in Franceand Germany, persuading the inflammable people to enter on thecampaign too rashly and ill-equipped. But the miorganized crowds,in their fervid eagerness for action, and without projier leadership VUUliCU OF TUE HOLT SEPULCHRE. 115. HG ISLAM, BYZANTIUM, AND TEE FIRST CRUSADE. or even suitable weapons, started long before the term set for theadvance of the mam army, and in great part
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ^ one of the most zealous, and therefore the most effectiveand best-known, of the missionaries who preached the cross in Franceand Germany, persuading the inflammable people to enter on thecampaign too rashly and ill-equipped. But the miorganized crowds,in their fervid eagerness for action, and without projier leadership VUUliCU OF TUE HOLT SEPULCHRE. 115. HG ISLAM, BYZANTIUM, AND TEE FIRST CRUSADE. or even suitable weapons, started long before the term set for theadvance of the mam army, and in great part fell victims to Hun-garians, Bulgarians, and Greeks. Fifty thousand, indeed, under tlieimmediate coiumand of Peter himself, reached Asia Elinor, there toperish almost to a man at Nice, their leader escaping by a fortu-nate accident. The main army of the Crusaders set out in the summer of lOOG,mth Constantinople as its place of rendezvous, which the national-ities approached by various routes. Godfrey of Bouillon, the Dukeof Lower Lorraine, ^^•ith liis brothers Baldwinand I-^ustace, the brave Baldwin de Bourg, andCount Robert of Flanders, with many knightsof Lorraine and the Lower Rhine, took theirway through Hungary. The Northern French,under Hugh of Vermandois, brother of KingPhilip, Didve Robert of Normandy, and CountStepiien of Blois, marched through Italy, and,taking ship from Apulia to the coast of Greece,crossed that country t
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