This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... in the positions they had seized. The leaders deemed it imprudent to allow any part of their troops to advance into the streets of a city which had not yet capitulated, and to which the imperial palace formed a strong citadel, garrisoned by a numerous body of well-disciplined mercenaries. To increase the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... in the positions they had seized. The leaders deemed it imprudent to allow any part of their troops to advance into the streets of a city which had not yet capitulated, and to which the imperial palace formed a strong citadel, garrisoned by a numerous body of well-disciplined mercenaries. To increase the confusion among the Greeks, and prevent their attacking the camp during the night, the Crusaders set fire to the houses on their flank. This third conflagration destroyed the eastern part of the city beyond the monastery of Evergetes, and extended near the sea as far as the Drungarion. Villehardoin says that the three fires lighted by the Crusaders destroyed more houses than were contained in the three largest cities in France.2 The Emperor Alexius V., finding no one disposed to defend his throne, embarked in a galley with the Empress Euphrosyne and her daughter Eudocia, whom he had married, and fled from the capital.3 In the mean time, the people of every rank crowded to St i The site of the monastery of Pantepoptes is marked by the mosque Fetiye; and the neighbouring mosque, Kilise, is supposed to mark the position of the headquarters of the Latins on the night after their victory. Nicetas, 366; Villehardoin, 101, ed. Ducange. The imperial families of Comnenos and Angelos present us scenes as tragical as anything in the ancient drama "presenting Thebes and Pelops' line." Alexius II. and his sister, the beautiful Maria, were murdered by Andronicus I., whose horrid death was accompanied by the murder of his sons. Isaac, the tyrant of Cyprus, the blind Isaac II., the fugitive Alexius III., the murdered Alexius IV., and Eudocia, the daughter of Alexius III., all bore a part in fearful tragedies. Eudocia was married to Simeon, king of...
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