YLGAZY GIVES GAUTHIER HIS LIFE
Book V.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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YLGAZY GIVES GAUTHIER HIS LIFE

The Mussulmans of Persia, Mesopotamia, and Syria, whom former defeats had not discouraged, swore to exterminate the Christian race, and marched towards the Orontes, conducted by Ylgazy, prince of Aleppo, the most ferocious of Islam warriors. The new prince of Antioch, Roger, had called to his assistance the king of Jerusalem, the counts of Edessa and Tripoli, but without waiting their arrival he head the imprudence to give battle, with a result which imperilled all the Christian colonies. Fortune was favoring the Crusaders when they became demoralized at a tornado of wind, which laid over the field of battle enormous black and sulphurous clouds. The Mussulmans understood this, and took advantage of the panic. . . . charged again on their enemies, who fled. Roger in vaintried ti arrest his fleeing soldiers, and was himself mortally wounded. After he fell the Mussulmans pursued, killed and captured. This battle took place near Artesia, in a place called the field of blood. The Mussulmans made a large number of prisoners, whom they massacred in presence of Gauthier, the Chancellor, who was then given his life by Ylgazy, to go and tell the Christians the fate which awaited them in Palestine. - Book V

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