. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . defeatedthis force with great slaughter at Ascalon. The battle of Ascalon broke thepower of the Mahometans as completely as Dorylaeum and Antioch had hum-bled that of the Turks. The work of the crusaders was accomplished. Many of them departed fortheir homes. Those who remained formed four little kingdoms. In additionto Godfreys kingdom of Jerusalem, Boh
. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . defeatedthis force with great slaughter at Ascalon. The battle of Ascalon broke thepower of the Mahometans as completely as Dorylaeum and Antioch had hum-bled that of the Turks. The work of the crusaders was accomplished. Many of them departed fortheir homes. Those who remained formed four little kingdoms. In additionto Godfreys kingdom of Jerusalem, Bohemond established a principality cen-tring on Antioch, and Count Raymond soon managed to carve out for himself,between the two, a dominion called Tripolis. The fourth kingdom lay far backupon the Euphrates River, with its capital at Edessa. * It had been founded byGodfreys brother Baldwin, who early separated himself from the other crusa-ders, seeing that his chance was slight among so many, and went adventuringby himself. In the end, however, Baldwin was luckiest of them all. Godfrey diedwithin a year of his accession, poisoned by the infidels, cry the lamentingchroniclers. Baldwin then succeeded his brother after some strife with the. France—The Kingdom of Jerusalem 805 priests, and was crowned king both of Jerusalem and Edessa as Baldwin I.,founder of a line of sovereigns who ruled for eighty years. These Christian kingdoms of the Crusaders were all built on the same feu-dal model, the lesser chiefs holding lands as fiefs from the greater, and eachstate was French in language and thought. Indeed, even to this day, all Euro-peans are called Franks in the East, and Europe is Frangiiistan, the Frank-ish land. As for the churchmen who had started the crusade. Pope Urban died twoweeks after the capture of Jerusalem, of which, therefore, he never heard. Peterthe Hermit, his authority gone, himself an object of scorn, was swept onwardwith the minor herd to the holy city. It is sa
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