. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. s, encouraged by example, and impelled by ne-cessity. The adventurers were at last so numerous, thattheir sagacious leaders became apprehensive lest thegreatness of the armament would be the cause of itsown disappointment. For this reason they permittedan undisciplined multitude, computed at 300,000 men,to go before them under the command of Peter thehermit, and Gauthier or Walter, surnamed the 3Ioney-less, from his being a soldier
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. s, encouraged by example, and impelled by ne-cessity. The adventurers were at last so numerous, thattheir sagacious leaders became apprehensive lest thegreatness of the armament would be the cause of itsown disappointment. For this reason they permittedan undisciplined multitude, computed at 300,000 men,to go before them under the command of Peter thehermit, and Gauthier or Walter, surnamed the 3Ioney-less, from his being a soldier of fortune. These tookthe road towards Constantinople through Hungaryand Bulgaria; and trusting that Heaven, by su-pernatural assistance, would sup]>ly all their neces-sities, they made no provision iur subsistence intheir march. They soon found themselves obliged toobtain by plunder what they vainly expected frommiracles; and the enraged inhabitants of the coun-tries through which they passed attacked the dis-orderly multitude, and slaughtered them withoutresistance. The more disciplined armies followedafter J and, passing the straits of Constantinople,. THE CRUSADES. 149 were mustered in the plains of Asia, and amounted inthe whole to 700,000 men. The princes engaged in this first crusade were,Hugo, count of Vermandois, brother to Philip I.,king of France ; Robert, duke of Normandy; Robert,earl of Flanders ; Raimond, earl of Toulouse and ; the celebrated Godfrey of Bouillon, duke ofLorrain, with his brothers Baldwin and Eustace ;Stephen, earl of Chartres and Blois; Hugo, count ofSt. Paul; with many other lords. The general ren-dezvous was at Constantinople. In this expedition,Godfrey besieged and took the city of Nice. Jerusa-lem was taken by the confederated army, and God-frey chosen king. The Christians gained the famousbattle of Ascalon against the sultan of Egypt, whichput an end to the first crusade, but not to the spiritof crusading. The rage continued for n
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