| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...island. In the field of Ceramic, CHAP, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hun- LVIdred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without reckoning...George, who fought on- horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter; and had these... | |
| Andrew Crichton - 1833 - 476 páginas
...only 136 Christian soldiers (most probably knights, but so stands the narrative of the historian), without reckoning St George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. Notwithstanding the frequent and powerful succours which the Sicilian Arabs obtained from their brethren... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1844 - 500 páginas
...the forces of the island. In the field of Ceramio, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown, by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without reckoning St. George, who fought on1 horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successors... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 páginas
...the forces of the island. In the field of Ceramic fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without...George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter ; and had these... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 páginas
...the forces of the island. In the field of Ceramic, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without...George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter ; and had these... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 640 páginas
...Ceramic, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soliiers, without reckoning St. George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter ; and had these... | |
| Arthur Glyn Leonard - 1894 - 360 páginas
...And in the battle of Ceranico (between 1060 and 1090), where 50,000 Saracens were overthrown by 136 Christian soldiers, ' without reckoning St. George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks, the captive banners with four camels were reserved for the successor of St. Peter.' At the solemnisation... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 páginas
...repulsed the forces of the island. In the field of Ceramic, 50,000 horse and foot were overthrown by 136 Christian soldiers, without reckoning St. George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter; and had these... | |
| Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1905 - 696 páginas
...defeated the Saracens in 1064. " In the field of Ceramio, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without...George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks. The captive banners, with four camels, were reserved for the successor of St. Peter ; and had these... | |
| Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1907 - 672 páginas
...was here that Roger the Great Count and his girl wife Eremberga were besieged for four months in the citadel by the revolted Saracens of the town, and...— From Nicosia there is a much-used coach-road to I.eonforte, the most important centre in Sicily for diligence routes to the cities of the interior.... | |
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