DESTRUCTION OF THE ARMY OF CONRAD III OF GERMANY
Book VI.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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DESTRUCTION OF THE ARMY OF CONRAD III OF GERMANY

Conrad was followed by an army so numerous, that, according to the report of Otho, the waves were not sufficient to transport it, nor the fields spacious enough to contain all its battalions. . . . Impatient to be before the Frnch, he marched on in perfect ignorance of the roads, and without provisions to feed the multitude which followed him. . . . he was surprised by th Turks who covered the summits of the mountains, and rushed down upon the exhusted and famished Christians. The Mussulmans were lightly armed, and performed their evolutions with the greatest rapidity. The Germans could scarcely move under the weight of their bucklers, corselets and steel brassets ; such as were more lightly armed sometimes would rush among the enemy and put them to flight, but the Turks soon rallied on the heights, and darted down again like birds of prey, upon the terrified christians. At length the rout became general, the country was covered with fugitives. . . . some perished with want, others fell beneath the swords of the Mussulmans ; the women and children were carried off with the baggage, and formed a part of the enemy's booty. Conrad, who had scarcely saved a tenth part of his army, was wounded by two arrows, and only escaped the pursuit of the Saracens by a kind of miracle. - Book VI

Notes: pages 190- 191 conduct of Eleanor Louis's queen and future Richard I's mother.

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