SURPRISED BY THE TURKS
Book VI.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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SURPRISED BY THE TURKS

On quitting Laodicea, a city situated on the Lycus, the Crusaders had directed their course towards the mountains which separate Phrygia from Pisidia. These mountains offered nothing but narrow passages, in which they constantly marched between rocks and precipices. The French army was divided into two bodies, commanded every day by new leaders, who received their orders from the king. Every evening they laid down in council the route they were to follow the next day, and appointed the place where the army was to encamp. The count de Maurienne, brother of the king, Queen Eleanor, and all the ladies of her suite, who had accompanied the vanguard, pressed Geoffrey de Rancon to descend into the plain. He had the weakness to comply with their wishes ; but scarcely had he gained the valley, than the Turks took possession of the heights he had passed, and ranged themselves in order of battle. . . . During this time the rearguard of the army, in which was the king, advanced full of confidence and security ; on seeing troops in the woods and on the rocks, they supposed them to be French, and saluted them with cries of joy. They marched without order, the beasts of burden and the chariots were mingled with the battalions, and the greater part of the soldiers had left their arms with the baggage. The Turks, perfectly motionless, waited in silence till the Christian army should be enclosed in the defiles. - Book VI

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