volume one

xxvm co^'TE^'Ts.
destroy the fleet of the Saracens, and conquer Tyre-- -Release of Baldwin
— Several cities of Egypt captured—The I^maelians—Zengui, prince of
Mossoul— Dynasty of the Atabecks— Flourishing state of Antioch,
Edessa, Tripoli, Sic.—Knights of St. John and of the Holy Sepulchre
The Templars—Death of Baldwin du Bourg—Foulque of Anjou crowned
king of Jerusalem—Raymond of Poiciers appointed governor of Antioch
—The emperor of Constantinople attacks Antioch—Melisende, queen of
Jerusalem—Baldwin III. ascends the throne— Disastrous retreat from
Bosra—The country of Traconite— Conquests of Zengui — Death of Josselin
de Courtenay—Noureddin, son of Zengui, captures Edessa, and
threatens Jerusalem pp. 265-328.
BOOK VI.—A.D. 1142—1148.
SECOND CRUSADE.
Europe aroused to a second crusade by the impending dangers of Jerusalem
and the Holy Land—The Abbot St. Bernard—Louis VIL of
France— He destroys Vitri, repents, and determines on a crusade against the
infidels—Pope Eugenius 111. invokes the assistance of the faithful— Pons,
abbot of Vezelai— Preaching of St. Bernard— State of the Germanic
empire— Conrad 111. invokes a general diet at Spires, and engages in the
crusade—Many distinguished personages take the cross—Enthusiausm of
the Germans—Conrad and Louis VII. arrive at Constantinople— Hypocritical
policy of the emperor, and treachery of the Greeks— Alarm
created by an eclipse of the sun—The Crusaders defeated by the Turks
The oriflamme— Fatal blunder of Geoffrey de Ran^on— Reported death
of Louis VII.—Everard des Banes, grand master of the Templars
Perfidious policy of the Greeks— Sufferings of the Crusaders— Louis VII.
arrives at Antioch with a small portion of his army — Eleanor of Guienne
repudiated by her husband, Louis VII.—He proceeds to the Holy Land
— Conrad arrives at Jerusalem—Baldwin III. urges on the war—The
Crusaders besiege Damciscus, and are repulsed—Ayoub, the father of
Saladin—The Sclaves— Crusaders in Spain and Portugal — Sugar,
minister of France— Unfortunate results of this crusade—The conquests
of Noureddin—The deaths of Raymond, Josselin, Suger, and
St. Bernard pp. 329-381.
BOOK VII.— A.D. 1148-1188.
TniED CEUS.VDE.
The religion of Mahomet—State of the East at the time of the third
crusade— Dynasties of the Saracens and the Turks almost annihilated
Caliphs of Bagdad, the chiefs of Islamism—Heroic character of Nour-
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