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Contents
I. [The Story of Mohammed the Prophet]
II. [Mohammed as Conqueror]
III. [The Spread of Islam]
IV. [The Rise of Chivalry]
V. [The Story of Peter the Hermit]
VI. [The Story of the Emperor Alexios and the First Crusade]
VII. [The Siege of Antioch]
VIII. [The Holy City is won]
IX. [Bernard of Clairvaux and the Second Crusade]
X. [The Loss of Jerusalem]
XI. [The Story of the Third Crusade]
XII. [The Adventures of Richard Lion-Heart]
XIII. [The Story of Dandolo, the Blind Doge]
XIV. [The Forsaking of the High Enterprise]
XV. [The Story of the Latin Empire of Constantinople]
XVI. [The Story of the Children's Crusade]
XVII. [The Emperor Frederick and the Sixth Crusade]
XVIII. [The Story of the Seventh Crusade]
XIX. [The Crusade of St Louis]
XX. [The Story of the Fall of Acre]
XXI. [The Story of the Fall of Constantinople]
XXII. [The Effect of the Crusades]
[List of Books Consulted]
[Index of Proper Names]
Illustrations
[The First Crusaders in Sight of Jerusalem] . . . Frontispiece
[The Vision of Mohammed]
[Pilgrims of the Eleventh Century journeying to the Holy City]
[The Preaching of Peter the Hermit]
[Duke Godfrey marching through Hungary]
[Robert of Normandy at Dorylæum]
[The Storming of Jerusalem]
[King Louis surrounded by the Turks]
[Richard and Philip at the Siege of Acre]
[Richard of England utterly defeats the Army of Saladin]
[The Fleet of the Fifth Crusade sets Sail from Venice]
[The Children crossing the Alps]
[John of Brienne attacking the River Tower]
[The Landing of St Louis in Egypt]
[The Last Fight of William Longsword]
[The Fall of Acre]
[Map of the Crusades]
The Story of the Crusades
CHAPTER I
The Story of Mohammed the Prophet
A poor shepherd people roaming unnoticed in the deserts of Arabia: a Hero-Prophet sent down to them with a word they could believe: See! the unnoticed becomes world-notable, the small has grown world-great.
CARLYLE: Hero as Prophet.