THE CRUSADERS ON THE NILE
Book VI.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

BOOK XIV
DAMIETTA AND LOUIS IX
A. D. 1248 TO 1255

Illus -66 Tissue

THE CRUSADERS ON THE NILE

The Crusaders had soon to contend with calamities more destructive to them than even the power or the arms of the Mussulmans ; a contagious disease made its appearance in the Christian army. They had neglected to bury the dead after the last two battles ; the bodies cast confusedly and heedlessly into the Aschmonur, and floating on its waters stopped before the bridge of boats constructed by the Crusaders, and covered the surface of the canal from one shore to the other. Pestilential exhalations quickly arose from this heap of carcasses. Louis IX, ordered the bodies of the Christians to be buried in the ditches dug by the Saracens on the bank ; but these spoils of death, moved and transported without precaution, only assisted the progress of the epidemic. The spectacle which was then presented to the eyes of the Crusaders spread the deepest grief throughout the camp, and awakened a more perfect consciousness of their losses. Christian soldiers were seen searching among bodies which wounds, the hues of death, and the action of the sun and air had disfigured, for the deplorable remains of their friends or companions. Many of those upon whom friendship imposed this pious task, fell sick and almost died instantly. - Book XIV

*Notes; pages 116 - 122 describes the battle of Mansourah at which the count d' Artois was mortaly wounded. Erard de Severy

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