Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ple power, began tomature his plans for the capture of Constanti-nople and the restoration of the Greeks totheir dominion. In the spring of 1261 adivision of troops under command of AlexiusStrategopulus was sent across the Hellespontinto Thrace to att
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ple power, began tomature his plans for the capture of Constanti-nople and the restoration of the Greeks totheir dominion. In the spring of 1261 adivision of troops under command of AlexiusStrategopulus was sent across the Hellespontinto Thrace to attack the Latins. The peopleof the country, sympathizing with the invader,joined bis standard until the army was swelledto twenty-five thousand men. With a chosenbody of troops Alexius pressed on to Constan-tinople, reached the capital in the night,gained possession of the Golden Gate, andbefore the Latins were aware of the danger,rose in the midst of the city. Baldwin fled tothe sea-shore and boarded a Venetian Latin Empire perished more suddenlythan it had arisen. Within twenty days ili-chael Palreologus entered the city. The Prank-ish barons followed in the flight of Baldwin,but the great mass of the Latins remained inthe citv and were undisturbed. UMVERSAL HISTORY. —THE ANCIEyT WORLD. CHAPTER —THE PAL^ \ tills- ruvolutiun the cap-ital of the- East aguiu fellto the Greeks. The changewas hailed by that peopleas an event most glorious;by the Eastern powers, asthe greatest disaster. ;us set diligently at work to reorganizethe Empire and to establish his family in thesuccession. To this end he associated withhimself his son Andronicus, who for ninevrars l)ore the title of Augustus jointly withhis father, and then for the lung period oftnrtv-six years reigned alone. Nil snoner was the expulsion of BaldwinII. known in the West than the cause of thefallen monarch was espoused by Pope UrbanIV., who advised a crusade against the Greeks,The same
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