CHAPTER XIV.

Divisions among the Moslems--Among the Christians--Crusade of Children--Innocent III. declares he will lead a new Crusade to Syria--The King of Hungary takes the Cross--Arrives in Syria--Successes of the Pilgrims--Abandon the Siege of Mount Thabor--The King of Hungary returns to Europe--The Duke of Austria continues the War--Siege of Damietta--Reinforcements arrive under a Legate--Famine in Damietta--The Moslems offer to yield Palestine--The Legate's Pride--He refuses--Taking of Damietta--The Army advances towards Cairo--Overflowing of the Nile--The Army ruined--The Legate sues for Peace--Generous Conduct of the Sultaun--Marriage of the Heiress of Jerusalem with Frederic, Emperor of Germany--His Disputes with the Pope--His Treaties with the Saracens--He recovers Jerusalem-- He quits the Holy Land--Disputes in Palestine--The Templars defeated and slaughtered--Gregory IX.--Crusade of the King of Navarre ineffectual--Crusade of Richard, Earl of Cornwall-- Jerusalem recovered--The Corasmins--Their Barbarity--They take Jerusalem--Defeat the Christians with terrible Slaughter--Are exterminated by the Syrians--Crusade of St. Louis--His Character--Arrives in the Holy Land--Takes Damietta--Battle of Massoura--Pestilence in the Army--The King taken--Ransomed--Returns to Europe--Second Crusade of St. Louis--Takes Carthage--His Death--Crusade of Prince Edward--He defeats the Saracens--Wounded by an Assassin-- Returns to Europe--Successes of the Turks--Last Siege and Fall of Acre--Palestine lost 286