The book The Crusades was written by author Cox, George W. (George William), 1827-1902 Here you can read free online of The Crusades book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Crusades a good or bad book?
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6j on the other) had gone on for some time when such help seemed to become needful. Tancred had hurried to the aid of Bohemond who was grievously pressed by Kilidje Arslan ; and Kerboga was bearing heavily on Godfrey and Hugh of Vermandois, when, clothed in white armour and riding on white horses, some human forms were seen on the neighbouring heights. ' The saints are coming to your aid/ shouted the bishop of Puy, and the people saw in these radiant strangers the martyrs St. George, St. Mauric...e, and St. Theodore. Without awaiting their nearer approach the crusaders turned on the enemy with a force and fury which were now irresistible. Their cavalry could do little. Two hundred horses only re- mained of the sixty thousand which had filled the plain a few months before. But the hedge of spears advanced like a wall of iron, and the Turks gave way, Defeat of broke, and fled. It was rout, not retreat ; Kerb °s a - and with the crusaders victory was followed by the massacre of men, women, and children.
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