Excerpt from The History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, Vol. 2 of 2
Effects in Europe of the failure of the secondCrusade... Louis VII. of France, and Henri II. of England, encourage holy wars... Envoys from Palestine visit France and England... Sensation in Europe made by the battle of Tiberias... The Troubadours... Gernamy arms... Philip Augustus and Henry II. take the cross... Saladin tythe... Richard C?ur de Lion resolves on a Crusade... March of the French and English... Crusade of the Germans... Death of the emperor Barbarossa... Formation of the Teutonic order... Events in Palestine after the loss of Jerusalem... Siege of Acre... Richard's course from Marseilles to Sicily... Occurrences in Sicily... The French sail to Acre... Departure of Richard... He subjugates Cyprus... He sets sail for Acre... His cruelty.
Europe rang with invectives against the holy Bernard, when the thousands of men whom his eloquence and miracles had rouzed to arms perished in the rocks of Cilicia.
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