The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The East
AD Scope Of Chapter LIX
1097-1118 Success of Alexius
Expeditions by Land
110l The first Crusade
1147 The second, of Conrad III. and Louis VII.
1189The third, of Frederic 1.
I Their numbers, II Passage through the Greek Empire III Turkish Warfare
Obstinacy of the Enthusiasm of the Crusades
1091-1153 Character and Mission of St. Bernard
Progress of the Mahometans
The Atabeks of Syria
1127-1145 Zenghi
1145-1174 Noureddin
1163-1169Conquest of Egypt by the Turks
1171End of the Fatimite Caliphs
1171-1193 Reign and Character of Saladin
1187 His Conquest of the Kingdom And City of Jerusalem
1188 The third Crusade, by Sea
1189-119l Siege of Acre
1191,1192 Richard of England, in Palestine
1192 His Treaty and Departure
1193 Death of Saladin
1198-1216Innocent III.
1203 The fourth Crusade
1218 The fifth
1228 The Emperor Frederic II. in Palestine .
Invasion of the Carizmians
1248-1254 St. Louis, and the sixth Crusade
1249He takes Damietta
1250 His Captivity in Egypt
1270 His Death before Tunis, in the seventh Crusade
1250-1517 The Mamalukes of Egypt
1268 Loss of Antioch
1291The Loss of Acre and the Holy Land
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