THE CRUELTIES OF BIBARS
Book XV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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THE CRUELTIES OF BIBARS

As Mussulmans entered Antioch without capitulation, they gave themselves up to all the excesses of license and victory. In a letter which Bibars addressed to the count of Tripoli, the barbarous conqueror takes a pleasure in describing the desolation of the subdued city, and all the evils which his fury had caused the Christians to undergo. "Death," says he, "came among the besieged from all sides and by all roads ; we killed all that thou hadst apponted to guard the city or defend its approaches. If thou hadst seen thy knights trampled under the feet of the horses, thy provinces given up by pillage, thy riches distributed by measure-full, the wives of thy subjects put to public sale ; if thou hadsty seen the pulpits and crosses overturned, the leaves of the gospel torn and cast to the winds, and the sepulchres of the patriarchs profaned ; if thou hadst seen thy enemies, the Mussulmans, trampling upon the tabernacle, and immolating in the sanctuary monk, priest, and deacon ; in short, if thou hadst seen thy palaces given up to flames, the dead devoured by the fire of this world, the Church of St. Paul and that of St. Peter completely and entirely destroyed, certes, thou wouldst have cried out ; 'Would to Heaven that I were become dust ! ' - Book XV

*Note; page 175 and 176 . . . first Joinville describes the fortification of Jaffa by Louis IX and then Bibars assault on Antioch described.

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