A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 45. — Coin of Alexius I. Coiiinenus. Legends t KE (wpic) ROHeEI (/SoTiÖ«),and AAEHIß AECIIOTH TS2 KOMNHNß. Size ol original. (Berlin.) the sea. In vain did Sultan Kilidj Arslan, issuing from Iconium,strive to break through the blockade; but the Crusaders, throughwant of unity in the command, and of skill in the art of sieges,made but slow progress. At length, when, on June 19, they wereready to storm the city, it was suddenly, in accordance ^^ith a secretunderstanding with the Greeks, given over to th
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 45. — Coin of Alexius I. Coiiinenus. Legends t KE (wpic) ROHeEI (/SoTiÖ«),and AAEHIß AECIIOTH TS2 KOMNHNß. Size ol original. (Berlin.) the sea. In vain did Sultan Kilidj Arslan, issuing from Iconium,strive to break through the blockade; but the Crusaders, throughwant of unity in the command, and of skill in the art of sieges,made but slow progress. At length, when, on June 19, they wereready to storm the city, it was suddenly, in accordance ^^ith a secretunderstanding with the Greeks, given over to the latter, and thewarriors of the cross liad to withdraw with empty hands. On theirmarch southward, while their columns were thrown into confusionand sejmrated by the rugged nature of the ground, they were, onJuly 1, attacked by Kilidj at Dorylaeum. At first liard beset,they ultimately carried the day. The advance through tlie Sultanateof Iconium encountered no further resistance. Baldwin oi Lorraine,with a slender force, set out on a daring march eastward, subduingthe c
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