History of America, l. v.]

[Footnote 821: See Anna Comnena.--M.]

[Footnote 83: Mecreant, a word invented by the French crusaders, and
confined in that language to its primitive sense. It should seem, that
the zeal of our ancestors boiled higher, and that they branded every
unbeliever as a rascal. A similar prejudice still lurks in the minds of
many who think themselves Christians.]

Soliman was rather provoked than dismayed by the loss of his capital:
he admonished his subjects and allies of this strange invasion of the
Western Barbarians; the Turkish emirs obeyed the call of loyalty or
religion; the Turkman hordes encamped round his standard; and his whole
force is loosely stated by the Christians at two hundred, or even three
hundred and sixty thousand horse. Yet he patiently waited till they had
left behind them the sea and the Greek frontier; and hovering on the
flanks, observed their careless and confident progress in two columns
beyond the view of each other. Some miles before they could reach
Dorylaeum in Phrygia, the left, and least numerous, division was
surprised, and attacked, and almost oppressed, by the Turkish cavalry.
[84] The heat of the weather, the clouds of arrows, and the barbarous
onset, overwhelmed the crusaders; they lost their order and confidence,
and the fainting fight was sustained by the personal valor, rather than
by the military conduct, of Bohemond, Tancred, and Robert of Normandy.
They were revived by the welcome banners of Duke Godfrey, who flew to
their succor, with the count of Vermandois, and sixty thousand horse;
and was followed by Raymond of Tholouse, the bishop of Puy, and the
remainder of the sacred army. Without a moment's pause, they formed
in new order, and advanced to a second battle. They were received with
equal resolution; and, in their common disdain for the unwarlike people
of Greece and Asia, it was confessed on both sides, that the Turks
and the Franks were the only nations entitled to the appellation of
soldiers. [85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast
of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions;
of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty
broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing
robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a
deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. [86] As long as the horses
were fresh, and the quivers full, Soliman maintained t