[269] Many of the Christians attributed their victory to the miraculous interposition of two canonized martyrs, who, in glittering armour, led on the army of Godfrey and the count of Toulouse, and scared the Turks more than all the lancers of the crusaders. Though the supposed interposition of such personages certainly robbed the leaders of no small share of glory, yet it gave vast confidence and enthusiasm to the inferior classes. [270] Albert of Aix; Fulcher; Guibert. [271] William of Tyre. [272] Guibert; William of Tyre; Albert of Aix. [273] Albert of Aix. [274] Guibert, lib. iii. [275] Albert of Aix, lib. iii.; William of Tyre. [276] Fulcher; Guibert. [277] Albert. [278] Ibid. [279] Radulph. Cadom. cap. 33; Guibert. lib. iii.; Will. Tyr. [280] All the authors of the day that I have been able to meet with declare this expedition of Baldwin and Tancred to have been voluntary. Mills only, as far as I can discover, attributes their conduct to an order received from others. I mark the circumstance more particularly, because, under my view of the case, the fact of Tancred and his companions having separated themselves from the rest of the host, after such immense fatigues, abandoning repose and comfort, and seeking new dangers and fresh privations, is one of the most extraordinary instances on record of the effect of the chivalrous spirit of the age. Under this point of view, all the historians of that time saw the enterprise which they have recorded; but Mills, writing in the least chivalrous of all epochs, has reduced the whole to a corporal-like obedience of orders. [281] Albert of Aix, lib. iii.; Radulph. cap. 37. [282] Albert of Aix, lib. iii.; Guibert; Will. Tyr. [283] Radulphus, cap. 38. [284] Albert of Aix; Guibert, lib. iii. [285] Radulphus; Albert of Aix; Guibert of Nogent. [286] Albert. lib. iii. [287] Albert. [288] Ibid. [289] Albert; Raoul de Caen. See also Fulcher, who was chaplain to Baldwin. [290] Albert of Aix; Raoul of Caen. [291] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre; Raimond d'Agiles. [292] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [293] Raimond d'Agiles. [294] Robert. Mon. lib. iii. Albert of Aix; Guibert. [295] Albert of Aix. [296] William of Tyre. [297] Albert of Aix. [298] The population of these countries was in general Christian. [299] Fulcher; Albert. [300] Albert; Guibert, lib. iii. [301] Guibert. [302] Albert. [303] Guibert, lib. iii.; where see the manner in which Baldwin contrived to subjugate the inhabitants. [304] Albert of Aix. [305] Guibert. [306] Albert.