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He returned to Italy in a single vessel, leaving Bohemond with the army, to pursue the plan of conquest thus ably commenced. So well did Bohemond perform his part. 200 CHARLEMAGNE AND HIS SUCCESSORS. BOBBST GtJISCARD OBDEBING HIS SHIPS TO BE BURNED. that the unfortunate Greeks compared the two destroyers to the caterpillar and the locust — the last of whom destroys whatever has escaped the teeth of the former.* Alexis was twice defeated by him ; but his resources were great, while those of Bohe...mond daily became less ; he therefore abandoned the con- quests he could not defend, and rejoined his father in Italy. In that country Robert supported Gregory VII., against the empire, in his struggle for inves- titures. In the reverses which befell that great pontiff, in his latter years, he was saved by Robert from falling into the hands of the Emperor Henry IV. Shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo by the Imperialists, the life of the un- fortunate pontiff would have been sacrificed but for his Norman ally, who hastened to Rome, burnt half the city, released the pope, and gave him an asylum in his own domains.
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