Identifier: historyofallnati09wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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HG ISLAM, BYZANTIUM, AND TEE FIRST CRUSADE. or even suitable weapons, started long before the term set for theadvance of the mam army, and in great part fell victims to Hun-garians, Bulgarians, and Greeks. Fifty thousand, indeed, under tlieimmediate coiumand of Peter himself, reached Asia Elinor, there toperish almost to a man at Nice, their leader escaping by a fortu-nate accident. The main army of the Crusaders set out in the summer of lOOG,mth Constantinople as its place of rendezvous, which the national-ities approached by various routes. Godfrey of Bouillon, the Dukeof Lower Lorraine, ^^•ith liis brothers Baldwinand I-^ustace, the brave Baldwin de Bourg, andCount Robert of Flanders, with many knightsof Lorraine and the Lower Rhine, took theirway through Hungary. The Northern French,under Hugh of Vermandois, brother of KingPhilip, Didve Robert of Normandy, and CountStepiien of Blois, marched through Italy, and,taking ship from Apulia to the coast of Greece,crossed that country t

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