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The book of similitudes: (1860)

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 375

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n possession of the city, and after a siegeof forty days, took it by storm. The whole of itsMohammedan and Jewish inhabitants were put todeath. The crusaders were guilty of the mostshocking barbarities—the inhabitants were massa-cred without mercy. In the year 1080, the Tower of London was… … TWELFTH CENTURY. In the beginning of the Twelfth Century, in 1110, the orderof Knight Templars was instituted to defend the sepulchre atJerusalem and to protect Christian strangers. The second andthird crusades to the Holy Land. In 118*7, Saladin, a sultanof Egypt, took Jerusalem, after it had been…

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