Today's installment concludes The First Crusade,our selection from The Crusades by Sir George W. Cox published in 1898.If you have journeyed

On the next day the final assault began, and was carried on through the day with the same monotony of brute force and carnage which marked all the

The priest proclaimed his discovery; the people rushed into the church; and from the church throughout the city spread the flame of a fierce

That night, by means of a rope ladder, Bohemond with about sixty followers (the ropes broke before more could ascend) climbed up the wall. Seizing ten

But the city was in the hands of men who had been long accustomed to despise the Greeks, and who had not yet learned to respect the valor of the

The strength and valor of the crusaders were soon to be tested. They were now face to face with the Turks, on whose cowardice Urban II had enlarged

Still the First Crusade was destined to accomplish more than any of the seven or eight crusades which followed it; and this measure of success it