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Title: 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rabs, and the wealth of the HolyLand, and reminded them of the poverty of their own country. When at lasthe urged them to march in a body and restore to Christian hands the possessionof the Sepulchre of Christ, a wave of religious ardor swept over his hearers, andwith one voice they cried, God wills it! God wills it! Ay, God wills it I exclaimed the Pope, catching at the words. Letthat be your battle cry, and the cross your standard. All Europe was roused. Through France the enthusiasm swept like fire.Peter the Hermit, with a mass of followers, passed preaching from place toplace. Men everywhere and of all ranks joined the crusaders. They sewedthe red cross on their shoulders, they carved it on their naked breasts, theybranded it upon themselves with burning iron. In their enthusiasm a great body of the ignorant, common people wouldwait for nothing, neither preparations nor provisions, but insisted that Petershould lead them at once to this new Land of Promise. So they set out, guided
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BOHEMOND LEADING THE CRUSADERS AT DORYL>EUM France—Gathering of the Crusaders 801 by the fanatical hermit and ruled, as much as they would permit themselves tobe ruled, by a poor but valiant knight, Walter the Penniless—though legendrepresents them as led by two animals, a goose and a goat, whose heedless wan-dering they followed. As they plodded through Germany, many of the peas-ants there caught the infection and joined them. Even women and childrenwere in the mob, and as each new city loomed upon the horizon the duller oneswould point and cheer, and cry Is that Jerusalem. What to do with this reckless and often starving horde, was a sore problemeven to the Christian countries through which they passed. They swept acrossHungary and the Byzantine Empire like a devastating storm, plundering asthey went. The bones of their dead whitened the path behind them. Lessthan half of them reached Constantinople, whose Emperor hastened to trans-port them over the Bosphorus Strait into Asi

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