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Blurb: “AUTEOR OF “History of Greece," "Mythology of the Arian Nations," Etc.”
“The Crusades were a series of wars, waged by men who wore on their garments the badge of the cross as a pledge binding them to rescue the Holy Land and the Sepulcher of Ohrist from the grasp of the unbeliever.
The dream of such an enterprise had long flouted before the minds of keen-sighted-popes and passionate enthusiasts: it was realized for the first time when, after listening to the burning eloquence of Urban II. at the conneil of Clermont, the assembled multitude with one voice welcomed the sacred war as the will of God.”