. 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 . osphorus and be rid of them, as he had of the fol-lowers of Peter. The Sultan of Nicaea, however, found them a very different foe from therabble of the previous year, whose survivors crept down from their hidingplaces in the mountains, the humbled Peter among them, and welcomed the new-comers. Nicaea was besieged and captured, and the crusaders marched o
. 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 . osphorus and be rid of them, as he had of the fol-lowers of Peter. The Sultan of Nicaea, however, found them a very different foe from therabble of the previous year, whose survivors crept down from their hidingplaces in the mountains, the humbled Peter among them, and welcomed the new-comers. Nicaea was besieged and captured, and the crusaders marched onthrough the deserts toward Syria. When he thought them sufficiently ex-hausted, the Sultan assailed Bohemonds division with all his forces, but God-frey hurried to his comrades help. The Sultan was defeated in a great battleat Dorylaeum, and his power crushed. Antioch, the great capital of northern Syria, was reached at last, and thecrusading army besieged it for seven months. It was finally captured throughthe art of Bohemond, who intrigued with a traitor among the defenders, wasallowed to scale a portion of the wall with his followers, threw open the gates,and admitted the Christian army. A fierce massacre of the defenders GODFREY OF BOUILLONS FIRST ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM i France—The Siege of Antioch 80 J By this time the crusaders store of provisions was exhausted. There hadbeen much privation among them, even before Antioch was stormed. Theyhad hoped to replenish their stock by the capture of the city, but found thatthe seven months siege had reduced the defenders to more desperate straitseven than they. Three days after Antioch fell, the entire army of the Turks, headed by theSultan of Mossul (Assyria) appeared before it, and the Christians found them-selves in turn besieged within its walls. Horrible were their sufferings ! Intheir despair they even offered to surrender Antioch if permitted to departpeacefully for their homes. Only Godfrey of Bouillon refu
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