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450 HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.<br />

minded them of the yiii:ues of his father, but was unable<br />

to lead them to A-ictorv. The contests they still had to<br />

maintain against the Saracens, together with hunger, fatigue,<br />

and disease, reduced the armj of the Germans to six or<br />

seven hundred horse, and about five thousand foot. This<br />

miserable wreck of a formidable army crossed Syria; and<br />

the report of their disasters having preceded them, their<br />

arrival must have created more terror than confidence<br />

among the Christians, who were then carrying on the siege<br />

of Ptolemais.

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