Identifier: historyofartofw00oman (find matches)
Title: A history of the art of war, the middle ages from the fourth to the fourteenth century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946
Subjects: Military art and science Military history, Medieval
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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p a horrible din of trumpets and nakers to dauntthe Christians, and the Bedouin squadrons rode out to the rightto encircle the left flank of the enemy. The opening of thefight by the Infidels is described by one good authority asresembling a stag lowering his head and extending his hornsso as to encircle the aggressor with them. ; ^ but there can havebeen no attempt to do this on the western flank, where the seawas too close to allow of any such manoeuvre. The turning movement was easily stopped by Duke Godfrey,who charged with his knights and easily rode down the light- ^ This deployment seems certain from the words of the Gesta Francorum, xxxix.,which say that Raymond fought on the right, Godfrey on the left, and all the othersbetween them : it names Robert of Normandy, Tancred, and Robert of Flanders asamong those who commanded in the centre, but says that alii omnes were there also. 2 Albert of Aix, vi. ^ Fulcher of Chartres, xix. PLATE VIII. ASCALON Au«i.l4.1099. Crusadersitians
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