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English: Disembarkation of the Crusaders at Damietta. - Facsimile of a woodcut in the "Grand Voyage de Hiérusalem", printed in Paris in 1522 by Francois Regnault, in the Library of M. Ambr. Firmin-Didot.

Figure 107 in "Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance".
Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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nd generous characterwas repugnant to this act of barbarism. The Christian host should have profited by the enemys discomfiture, andimmediately have penetrated into the interior of the country, instead ofremaining, as it did, stationary for five months, either on account of theperiodic inundations of the river, or in expectation of the reinforcementswhich were due from Europe. This long delay, which fostered idleness, dis-sipation, and insubordination, was fatal to the expedition. When the king atlast gave the order to advance, he had under his orders none but effeminate,enervated troops, without obedience and without discipline; and the Saracens,who had had plenty of time to forget their panic and overcome their dis-couragement, found, in the demoralization of their enemies, a still furtherground for comfort, and a fresh motive for confidence. Thenceforward the Christian cause proceeded from bad to worse. Afterseveral engagements in which they were worsted, after several battles, the
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