English: EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE.
Identifier: illustratedunive00clar (find matches)
Title: Illustrated universal history: being a clear and concise history of all nations
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Clare, Israel Smith, 1847- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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f Pope Inno-cent III. After assembling at Venice for the purpose of being conveyed to Pales-tine, the Crusaders captured Zara, in Dalmatia, for the Venetians; but instead ofsailing to the Holy Land, they proceeded against Constantinople for the purpose ofrestoring to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, Isaac Angelus, who had been de-throned and imprisoned by his own brother. Storming of Constantinople by the Crusaders.—Pleaded by the blind oldDandolo, Doge of Venice, the Crusaders appeared before Constantinople, took thecity, and restored Isaac Angelus to the Greek throne; but when the Fiench Crusa-dfrs demanded the rewards which had been promised to them, the inhabitants ofConstantinople raised an insurrection in which the Emperor Isaac Angelus and hisson Alexius perished. Thereupon the French Crusaders stormed and took iLeByzantine capital, plundered the churches, palaces, and dwellings, destroyed manyvaluable monuments of art, and filled die whole city with terror and desolation.
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