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" Damascus, and threatened to join the Franks in the deliverance of Jerusalem. Egypt was lost had she been defended only by her feeble offspring ; but the Mamalukes had breathed in their infancy the keenness of a Scythian air... "
Translations from the Chinese and Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations - Page 78
1831 - 8 pages
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 11

Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 474 pages
...a Scythian air; equal in valour, superior in discipline, they met the Mogujs in many a well fought field; and drove back the stream of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates. But it overflowed, ofAn,_ with resistless violence, the kingdoms of Arme- Iolisll124ai nia and Anatolia,...
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Translations from the Chinese & Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations

Oriental Translation Fund - 1831 - 474 pages
...again took possession of the country, and held it till the conquest of the Othomans. " Egypt was lost," says Gibbon, " had she been defended only by her feeble...destroyed in our times by a signal act of treachery of Mchmed, Pasha of Egypt. LNote (72), page 60. ' Antioch was finally occupied and ruined by Bondocdar,...
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The history of the Knights Templars, the Temple church, and the Temple

Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1842 - 600 pages
...general, gained a com. A•o. I2WI. plete victory over the Tartars in the neighbourhood of Tiberias, and drove back the stream of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates.* Bendocdar returned to Egypt the idol of his soldiers, and clothed with a popularity which rendered...
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The Knights Templars

Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1852 - 346 pages
...Bendocdar, the Mamlook general, they gained a complete victory over them in the neighbourhood of Tiberias, and drove back the stream of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates. Bendocdar returned to Egypt the idol of his soldiers, and clothed with a popularity which rendered...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon - 1857 - 720 pages
...infancy the keenness of a Scythian air ; equal in valour, superior in discipline, they met the Monguls in many a well-fought field ; and drove back the stream of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates. But it overflowed with resistless violence the kingdoms of Armenia and Anatolia, of which the former...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 660 pages
...a Scythian air : equal in valor, superior in discipline, they met the Moguls in many a well fought field ; and drove back the stream of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates.! But it overflowed with resist* less violence the kingdoms of Armenia f and Anatolia, of which the former...
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