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 The Crusades 325 number of Turks and Saracens killed is reckoned at twelve hundred and thirty, while of our own troops we did not lose a single man. On the following day (Easter), while my chaplain, Alex- ander, was writing this letter in great haste, a party of our men, lying in wait for the Turks, fought a successful engage- ment with them and killed sixty horsemen, whose heads they brought to the army. I can write to you only a few, dearest, of the many things Which we have done. Although I am not able to tell you all that is in my mind, I trust that all is going well with you, and urge you to watch carefully over your possessions and to treat as you ought your children and your vassals. You will certainly see me just as soon as I can possibly return to you. Farewell. To Lord Paschal, Pope of the Roman Chtirch, and to alt the 127. God- Bishops, and to the whole Christian people, Greeting from the ? ey .J f Archbishop of Pisa, Duke Godfrey, now, by the grace of God, his com- Defender of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Raymond, panions Count of St. Gilles, and the whole army of God, which is in ^ con _ the land of Israel : cerning the Multiply your supplications and prayers in the sight of the^usade. God with joy and thanksgiving, since God has manifested his mercy in fulfilling by our hands what he had promised in ancient times ; for after the capture of Nicaea the whole army, made up of more than three hundred thousand sol- diers, departed thence. And, although this army was so Comfortable great that it could in a single day have covered all Romania P assa s e JIT Hi- 11 i through Asia and drunk up all the rivers and eaten up all the growing Minor, things, yet the Lord conducted them amid so great abun- dance that a ram was sold for a penny and an ox for twelve pence or less. Moreover, although the princes and kings of the Saracens rose up against us, yet, by God's will, they were easily conquered and overcome. Because, however, some were puffed up by these sue- Delay at cesses, God opposed to us Antioch, impregnable to human Antioch - strength. And there he detained us for nine months and so