Joseph-François Michaud > Quotes

“The Christian warriors fought like lions, animated by their war-cry “Victory or Death!” Baldwin”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Some cities of Italy and the provinces near the Pyrenees, where the Goths had encouraged the Roman laws, alone exhibited glimmerings of civilization. Among”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“it might be said that God was pleased to show how insignificant the earth is in his eyes, by thus causing to pass from hand to hand, like a child’s toy, a power so monstrous as to threaten the universe.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“THE HISTORY OF THE middle ages presents no spectacle more imposing than the Crusades, in which are to be seen the nations of Asia and of Europe armed against each other, two religions contending for superiority, and disputing the empire of the world.”
― Jospeh Michaud, The History of the Crusades

“The army of the Lord has only to appear, and all that vain mass of Mussulmans will disperse like a shadow. To-day they are full of pride and insolence, to-morrow they shall be frozen with fear,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The war-cry of the Christian soldiers was: “Christ lives, Christ reigns, Christ commands.”[233]”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The factious repented of having allowed a prince whom they had so cruelly outraged, to live. New accusations were brought against him. It was said that he had only signed the peace with perfidious intentions.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“In this solemn assembly the first care was to regulate and determine the duties of the barons, the lords, and the common subjects, towards the king, and the duties of the king towards the lords and subjects. The”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“He refused the diadem and the insignia of royalty, saying that he would never accept a crown of gold in a city in which the Saviour of the world had been crowned with thorns.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“departure of Conrad, marshal of the emperor Henry, Wolf IX., duke of Bavaria, the princess Ida, margravine of Austria; and a great number of lords and knights.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Among these latter was William IX., count of Poictiers, a relation of the emperor of Germany, and the most powerful vassal of the king of France. An amiable and intelligent prince, of not at all a warlike character, he left, to take up the pilgrim’s staff, a voluptuous and gallant court, which he had often delighted with his songs. He took upon him the cross at Limoges, and set out for the East, accompanied by a great number of his vassals, among whom were a vast many women and young girls.[206]”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Godfrey undertook to rule so many conflicting pretensions, and”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“It is the duty of the historian to admit that the twenty-eight emirs who accompanied Kerboghâ were almost all at variance with one another, and scarcely acknowledged the authority of a chief.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The Provençals themselves at length refused to obey the inflexible count of Thoulouse,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The emirs, after having offered presents to Godfrey, returned to their own country, and related the wonders they had seen. Their recitals, which history has not disdained, contributed greatly to increase the fame of the king of Jerusalem.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“They planted ladders and swords, by the means of which they mounted the rampart,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Do not believe, however, brothers and companions, that I speak thus because I am ambitious of royalty, and that I am seeking your favour or suffrages. No; I have not sufficient presumption to aspire to such an honour; I take Heaven and men to witness, that even if you should offer me the crown, I would not accept it,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Mount of Olives, they contemplated with much respect the grotto in which Christ sweated blood, and the spot where the Saviour wept over Jerusalem.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Godfrey of Bouillon surpassed all the captains of his age in his skill in war; and if he had lived some time longer, would have merited a name among great kings.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The bravest mounted, and fought hand to hand with the Saracens, who were confounded with such rash courage.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“They could not withdraw their eyes from the holy city, or cease to lament over the state of debasement into which it had fallen.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“temperance, good faith, and humanity; for you know by such virtues great principalities are acquired and kept as well as by arms.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“but the Genoese, at the sight of such a rich booty, paid no respect to the capitulation, and massacred without pity a disarmed and defenceless people. This”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“To add to this honourable testimony, the exploits of the duke of Lorraine during the holy war were dwelt upon. They remembered that at the siege of Nice he had killed the most redoubtable of the Saracens; that he had split from shoulder to haunch a giant on the bridge of Antioch, and that in Asia Minor he had exposed his life to save that of a soldier who was overpowered by a bear.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Seated on a blood-stained throne, and in constant dread of the fickle nature of the people, he soon inspired his subjects with as much fear as his enemies.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“if they fell, heaven would be open to them; if they triumphed, the fame of their victory would be spread throughout the Christian world. There could be no safety in flight; their home was beyond the seas; in the East there was no asylum for the conquered.” After”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Among these new defenders of the cross was Edgar Atheling, who, after the death of Harold, had disputed the crown of England with William the Conqueror.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The garrison of the city amounted to forty thousand men, and twenty thousand of the inhabitants took up arms.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Most of them even thought of offering him the honour he had declined, for he who in such circumstances refuses a crown, always appears to be the most worthy of it;”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“they finished by declaring that the gates of Jerusalem should only be opened to unarmed Christians.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes