LATE one April night in the year 1192, Conrad, Duke of Montferrat, Marquis of Tyre, and prospective King of Jerusalem, walked by torchlight from the palace of the Lord Bishop of Beauvais through the teeming streets of Tyre. Even at that late hour the ...
LATE one April night in the year 1192, Conrad, Duke of Montferrat, Marquis of Tyre, and prospective King of Jerusalem, walked by torchlight from the palace of the Lord Bishop of Beauvais through the teeming streets of Tyre. Even at that late hour the way was filled with Christian knights and squires and monks and men-at-arms all bearing the red cross of the Crusade, while from the minarets echoed the brave call that still finds men broken with plague and hunger and defeat, "Save the Holy Sepulchre."