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HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES. 125<br />

tune, hastened to Edessa, to increase the army and the court<br />

of the new monarch. The advantages which resulted to the<br />

Crusaders from the foundation of this new state, have made<br />

their historians forget that they were the fruit of injustice<br />

and Aaolence. The principaHty of Edessa served as a check<br />

upon the Turks and the Saracens, and was, to the period of<br />

the second crusade, the principal bidwark of the power of<br />

the Christians in the East.

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