[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades 33/35
1150--1172, in Bongarsius,) Abulfeda, (p.
43--50,) and Bohadin, (p.
75--179.)] [Footnote 66: I have followed a moderate and probable representation of the fact; by Vertot, who adopts without reluctance a romantic tale the old marquis is actually exposed to the darts of the besieged.] [Footnote 67: Northmanni et Gothi, et caeteri populi insularum quae inter occidentem et septentrionem sitae sunt, gentes bellicosae, corporis proceri mortis intrepidae, bipennibus armatae, navibus rotundis, quae Ysnachiae dicuntur, advectae.] [Footnote 68: The historian of Jerusalem (p.
1108) adds the nations of the East from the Tigris to India, and the swarthy tribes of Moors and Getulians, so that Asia and Africa fought against Europe.] [Footnote 69: Bohadin, p.
180; and this massacre is neither denied nor blamed by the Christian historians.
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