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With grief Europe heard of the fall of Acre, andquickly was it followed by that of Tyre, and allthe towns along the Syrian coast, from which theLatin inhabitants who could, fled by sea.

Beyrout was the last Christian town to fall,according to some , 1 but others say Nicopolis lastedtwo years after . 2 Glory to the Hospitallers, for ofthese was the little garrison, whose abandonedvalour rendered it inexpugnable so long underreiterated assaults; nor did it ever yield to humanarms, but was thrown down by an earthquake , 3which buried the whole—soldiers, citadel, city.Ill printed, or inexact, Sanuti has Venetians, andtruce, and Sycopolis. There were several places

1 Chron. St. Bertin.—Bib. Crois., i. 423.

7 Sanuti.—Bib. Crois., ii. 634.

3 Seb. Paoli: Not. Geo., i. 443.

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