o saw the apparition at the same instant, cried aloud,
that St George was come to combat at the head of the Christians.
Such was the tumult produced by this incident, that it bore down
alike fear and reflection. All rushed tumultuously forward to the
assault. The women even, with the children and sick, issued from
their retreats, and pressed forward into the throng, bearing
water, provisions, or arms, and aiding to drag forward the moving
towers. Impelled in this manner, that of Godfrey advanced in the
midst of a terrible discharge of stones, arrows, javelins, and
Greek fire, and succeeded in getting so near as to let its
drawbridge fall on the ramparts. At the same time a storm of
burning darts flew against the machines of the besieged, and the
bundles of straw piled up against the last walls of the town took
fire. Terrified by the flames the Saracens gave way. Lethalde and
Engelbert de Tournay, followed by Godfrey and his brother Everard,
crossed the drawbridge and gained the rampart. Soon with the aid of
their followers they cleared it, and, descending into the streets,
struck down all who disputed the passage.

"At the same time, Tancred and the two Roberts made new efforts,
and on their side, too, succeeded in penetrating into the town. The
Mussulmans fled on all sides; the war-cry of the Crusaders, "Dieu
le veut! Dieu le veut!" resounded in the streets of Jerusalem. The
companions of Godfrey and Tancred with their hatchets cut down the
gate of St Stephen, and let in the main body of the Crusaders, who
with loud shouts rushed tumultuously in. Some resistance was
attempted by a body of brave Saracens in the mosque of Omar, but
Everard of Puysave expelled them from it. All opposition then
ceased; but not so the carnage. Irritated by the long resistance of
the Saracens, stung by their blasphemies and reproaches, the
Crusaders filled with blood that Jerusalem which they had just
delivered, and which they regarded as their future country. The
carnage was universal. The Saracens were massacred in the streets,
in the houses, in the mosques."

The number of the slain greatly exceeded that of the conquerors. In the
mosque of Omar alone ten thousand were put to the sword.

"So terrible was the slaughter, that the blood came up to the knees
and reins of the