A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . of French chivalry, fell into the jiower 284 CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM, nSO-lSOO. of the unbelievers, who oTily the noblest prisoners. Accord-ing to the biographer of Louis IX., Jean de Join\ille, who professesto have been an eye-witness of what he reports, 10,000 wereslaughtered for refusing to adopt jMohammedanism. The freedomof the rest Louis was fain to secure by the payment of a heavyransom, the surrender of all his conquests, and the promise of a jieacefor ten years. Ultimately tlie peace was ra
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . of French chivalry, fell into the jiower 284 CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM, nSO-lSOO. of the unbelievers, who oTily the noblest prisoners. Accord-ing to the biographer of Louis IX., Jean de Join\ille, who professesto have been an eye-witness of what he reports, 10,000 wereslaughtered for refusing to adopt jMohammedanism. The freedomof the rest Louis was fain to secure by the payment of a heavyransom, the surrender of all his conquests, and the promise of a jieacefor ten years. Ultimately tlie peace was ratified, and the Frenchwere at liberty to withdraw. While the majority hastened home,Louis himself remained for nearly a year in Syria. But to no pur-pose ; the preaching of the ci-usade at home brought no that he could effect was to enable the Chi-istians, by strength-ening the fortifications of Sidon, Jaffa, and Acre, to hold out a fewyears longer. All prospects of recovering what was lost vanished inthe conclusion of a peace between Egiy-pt and Damascus. In the.
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