The Crusader Principality of Antioch, 1098–1268 | Calm Bedtime History
It is the third of June, 1098. Inside the double walls of Antioch, the last defenders of the garrison watch from the towers as Frankish soldiers scale the ramparts by moonlight. The city has been under siege for eight months. The Orontes river flows below the citadel on Mount Silpius, carrying the smell of rotting siege debris downstream toward the Mediterranean, still thirty leagues away.
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