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he pleased. Nevertheless they shall be still morepurified, if not to so small a compass as Gideon’s,yet to one third.

There are wonderful things even to this day toldabout the whole country round Antioch—it is allholy ground to the Arab—whose fables are allappropriated to the French by the French his-torian ; but Franks are meant to include almost allEui’ope. The old iron bridge—not that it was ofmetal, but that it had two towers covered withplates of iron—fell in 1822, from an earthquake, Ithink. But nothing was more consequential in allthe various battles during the siege of Antioch,than that necessity reduced the cavalry to fight onfoot, having devoured all their horses during thefamine; and that dismounted cavalry formed aninfantry to outdo either, and far superior to allthe infantry then in use ; and of which the famousSpanish foot afterwards were only a faint imitation,for this infantry was quite irresistible, and brokethe Turkish cavalry at once. It Avas a lesson, thathad a great effect then, and a far greater over theAvhole military world in process of time. For in-fantry, that up to that moment had been quiteneglected in the middle ages, and considered asecondary arm, began to be held in due considera-tion and put on a par with the cavalry, which in