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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pegram battalion Association. (search)
quel was glorious; when the flower of the chivalry of all the nations of Europe gathered to the standard of Godfrey, an army of the choicest spirits that ever assembled on a field of battle, sworn on the red cross of the Crusade to recover the sepulchre of the Son of God, or die in the effort. Twenty thousand men, each man of them a hero in battle and an expert in arms, stormed at the walls and tower and gates of Jerusalem, reputed impregnable, and defended by an army of seventy thousand Saracens. The besieged more than three times the number of the besiegers. When was it ever heard that a walled and fortified city was carried by assault on such terms? And yet Jerusalem was taken; how, no man knows. The Arab chroniclers dismiss the whole matter curtly, saying: It was the will of God that the city should be taken, and so the Christians, rushing on as one man, took it—God curse them. I have often tried to picture to myself the scene which a battle-array, in the times of the Cru