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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades
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403--409,) ascribe the retreat to Richard himself; and Jacobus a Vitriaco observes, that in his impatience to depart, in alterum virum mutatus est, (p.

1123.) Yet Joinville, a French knight, accuses the envy of Hugh duke of Burgundy, (p.

116,) without supposing, like Matthew Paris, that he was bribed by Saladin.] [Footnote 78: The expeditions to Ascalon, Jerusalem, and Jaffa, are related by Bohadin (p.

184--249) and Abulfeda, (p.

51, 52.) The author of the Itinerary, or the monk of St.Alban's, cannot exaggerate the cadhi's account of the prowess of Richard, (Vinisauf, l.vi.c.


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