Word: ascalon
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Antioch. Marching along the seacoast the army discovered sugar cane for the first time, liked it. The initial attack on Jerusalem failed; the second was their last desperate attempt. It succeeded; the Holy City was theirs; they killed for two days. After the Battle of Ascalon secured their position, most of the First Crusaders went home, left Godfrey of Bouillon as Jerusalem's king. Christians held the city for 88 years, till Saracen Saladin captured it in his Holy...
...bothered in turn about the health of the American undergraduate body, the book may be valuable, although the material is too fragmentary and heterogeneous to be fitted readily into a thesis mould. About all it proves, as we see it, is that the men and women of Ascalon are not like those of Gath
...Jonah," or "In the Black Whale at Ascalon...
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