General Notes

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3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Apr 17, 2001
[Fortescue.ged]
HISTLOUIS VII LED ONE OF THE ARMIES IN THE SECOND CRUSADE.  THEY SUFFER
ED SERIO US LOSSES IN ASIA MINOR ON THE ROAD TO ANTALYA ON YHE MEDITERRANE
AN COAST.  ULT IMATELY, THE KING AND QUEEN (SHE CAME WITH HIM) WERE WELCOM
ED BY PRINCE RAYMOND OFANTIOCH, WHO WAS THE UNCLE TO QUEEN ELEANOR.  REPOR
TEDLY, IT WAS IN ANTIOCH THAT THE QUEEN REMARKED THAT HER HUSBAND WAS MO
RE LIKE A MONK THEN A MAN WHEN H E WANTED TO CONTINUE ON TO JERUSALEM INST
EAD OF HELPING RAYMOND ATTACK A MUSLIM LEADER INALEPPO.  ELEANOR, A LIVEL
Y, FLIRTATIOUS AND ATTRACTIVE WOMAN SUPPORTE D RAYMOND'S POSITION, BUT LOU
IS WAS NOT PERSUADED.  ELEANOR HAD BEEN SPENDING M UCH OF HER TIME WITH H
ER UNCLE, AND RUMORS OF AN AFFAIR HAD BEGUN.  WHEN ELEANO R MADE IT CLEART
HAT SHE WANTED TO REMAIN IN ANTIOCH, LOUIS STORMED INTO RAYMOND 'S PALA
CE AND FORCIBLY REMOVED HER AND HEADED FOR JERUSALEM. WHEN THEY REACHED AC
RE, KING BALDWIN AND HIS MOTHER QUEEN MELISENDE MET THEM AND THE ARMY OF K
IN G CONRAD OF GERMANY. THEY DECIDED TO MARCH AGAINST DAMASCUS.  THEIR COM
BINED FO RCES NUMBERED AROUND 50,000 MEN.  AFTER LAYING SEIGE TO THE CIT
Y, THE THREE LEA DERS BEGAN TO ARGUE ABOUT WHO WOULD TAKE CONTROL.  MORA
LE IN THE TROOPS WENT DO WN, AND THERE WAS TALK OFRETREAT BY THOSE SECTIO
NS WHO NOT BE BENEFITTED BY THE FALL OF DAMASCUS.  WITH THE ARMIES IN DIAR
RAY, A HUMILIATING RETREAT ENDED THE CONFLICT.