The age of the crusades . lance-points of those below the thunders of the storm drowned the crash ofthe falling masonry. Securing the three towers ofPhirouss command, the crusaders opened the citygates to the dense ranks that waited without. With the cry of Deus vult! Deus vult! the in-furiated multitude poured into the city. The Mos-lems, as they came from their homes and barracksat the rude awakening, were slaughtered withouthaving time for resistance. Through all houses notmarked by some symbol of the Christian faith thecrusaders raged; cruelty and lust knew no dawn r
The age of the crusades . lance-points of those below the thunders of the storm drowned the crash ofthe falling masonry. Securing the three towers ofPhirouss command, the crusaders opened the citygates to the dense ranks that waited without. With the cry of Deus vult! Deus vult! the in-furiated multitude poured into the city. The Mos-lems, as they came from their homes and barracksat the rude awakening, were slaughtered withouthaving time for resistance. Through all houses notmarked by some symbol of the Christian faith thecrusaders raged; cruelty and lust knew no dawn revealed over six thousand corpses in the Capture of Antioch. 111 streets. Accian escaped the Christian soldiers, onlyto meet a fess honorable death at the hands of awoodman while in flight through the forest. Phirouswas abundantly rewarded for his treachery, but twoyears later he reembraced Moslemism in expectationof larger gains. In the anathemas of Christian andpaynim he was consigned to the hell in which CHAPTER XVI. THE HOLY LANCE. HE elation of the crusaders over the pos-session of Antioch was of briefest dura-tion. Their three days license, in theenjoyment of what they had so inglori-ously won, was terminated on the fourthday by fearful menace. Kerbogha was really his own veteran experience he added the wisdomof the most redoubtable sultans and emirs of Syria,Asia Minor, and Persia, who commanded an armyof one hundred thousand horse and three hundredthousand foot. So stealthily had they approachedthat the news was conveyed to the Christians only*by their observing from the walls the advance of themighty host as it dashed through the camps butrecently consecrated to the cross. Quickly the Mos-lems completed their investment of the city. TheChristians could make no foray over the fields, andno provisions were allowed to reach them from theport. To add to their fears, the citadel of Antiochhad not fallen into their hands with the rest of thecity, and
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