Parallel source problems in medieval history / by Frederic Duncalf and August C. Krey ; with an introduction by Prof. Dana Carleton Munro.

  • Duncalf, Frederic, 1882-1963.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Parallel source problems in medieval history / by Frederic Duncalf and August C. Krey ; with an introduction by Prof. Dana Carleton Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    walls, which cannot be done unless the ground is level, and thus it happened that the part of the city that seemed the weakest was not attacked because it was impossible to move the machines close to the s walls. This part of the city is on the north. The count [Raymond] and his men worked equally hard on Mount Zion, but they had much assistance from William Ebriacus and the Genoese sailors, who, although they had lost their ships at Joppa, as we io have already related, had nevertheless been able to save ropes, mallets, spikes, axes, and hatchets, which were very necessary to us. But why delay the story ? The appointed day arrived and the attack began. However, I want to say this first, that, according to 15 our estimate and that of many others, there were sixty thousand fighting men within the city, not counting the women and those unable to bear arms, and there were not many of these. At the most we did not have more than twelve thousand able to 20 bear arms, for there were many poor people and many sick. There were two or three hundred knights in our army as I reckon it, not more. I say this, that you may realize that nothing, whether great or small, which is undertaken in the name of the Lord can fail, 25 as the following pages show. Our men began to undermine the towers and walls. From every side stones were hurled from the tor- menti1 and the petraria3 and so many arrows that 1 See note 2, p. hi.