A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . IlG. 1-27. — Seal of tlie Emperor Baldwin I. spring of 1254, Louis, at the head of the meagre remnants of hisgreat army, returned to France, whether he was called Ijy the deathof the regent, his mother, Blanche of Castile. For their ability to maintain themselves for more than thirtyyears in the narrow strip of coast-land the Christians had been in-debted solely to the discords of their adversaries. But when thesewere allayed by the elevation of the Mameluke Bibars to the sul-tanate, their troubles were re
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . IlG. 1-27. — Seal of tlie Emperor Baldwin I. spring of 1254, Louis, at the head of the meagre remnants of hisgreat army, returned to France, whether he was called Ijy the deathof the regent, his mother, Blanche of Castile. For their ability to maintain themselves for more than thirtyyears in the narrow strip of coast-land the Christians had been in-debted solely to the discords of their adversaries. But when thesewere allayed by the elevation of the Mameluke Bibars to the sul-tanate, their troubles were renewed. Bibars destroyed Nazareth,demolished the fortress on Mount Tabor, Arsuf, and Jaffa, anddevastated the fertile district around Tyre. In the north. Anti-och fell into his hands. The concurrent collapse of the Latin em-pire of Constantinople was, moreover, disastrous for the Sj^rianChristians. The founders of this latter empii-e had not been ablecompletely to subjugate all the provinces l)ehinging to the By-santines; even in Epirus the Comneni maintained the .sii])reiiiacy. FAL
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