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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XVI
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According to the Christian chroniclers, one hundred thousand infidels, and only four thousand crusaders, were left on the field of battle.

The camp of the Turks was given over to pillage; and fifteen thousand camels, and it is not stated how many horses, were carried off.
The tent of Corbogha himself was, for his conquerors, a rich prize and an object of admiration.

It was laid out in streets, flanked by towers, as if it were a fortified town; gold and precious stones glittered in every part of it; it was capable of containing more than two thousand persons; and Bohemond sent it to Italy, where it was long preserved.

The conquerors employed several days in conveying into Antioch the spoils of the vanquished; and "every crusader," says Albert of Aix, "found himself richer than he had been at starting from Europe." This great success, with the wealth it was the means of spreading, and the pretensions and hopes it was the cause of raising amongst the crusaders, had for some time the most injurious effects.

Division set in amongst them, especially amongst the chiefs.


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