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	Italians and Dalmatia - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In Zara, on the 1st July of the same year, the flags of San Marco were carried to the Cathedral in Santa Anastasia and laid on the High Altar, with a solemn parade through the calli (narrow alleys) of the whole garrison.
		In Zara, the cycle race for the regional Championship of Dalmatia organized by the Veloce Club Zaratino, was cancelled for the mourning for the death of Archduke Francesco Ferdinando and his wife Countess Sofia Chotek.
		Zara, given its position as an isolated eastward bridgehead, felt the ideological opposition breaking out on the Spanish fields as a crusade for the defence of the European civilization.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=115945 (11554 words)

	Siege Coins
		This was evident in the siege of Vienna in 1523 which clearly showed the Turks' skill in crude psychological warfare....captive Austrians impaled on poles in clear view of defending forces.
		The siege of Groningen in 1672 displayed a sophisticated plan of battle on the part of both sides The event was struck in metal after the siege.
		Siege (or obsidional) money was essentially created as a means of payment during a siege when normal sources of revenue ran out.
	www.coinlibrary.com /wpns/club_wpns_pr_siege2.html (1992 words)

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		Certain it is, however, that he was the means of raising the siege of Antioch, and causing the eventual triumph of the armies of the Cross.
		In connexion with this siege, the chronicler, Raymond d'Agilles, (the same Raymond, the chaplain, who figured in the affair of the Holy Lance,) relates a legend, in the truth of which he devoutly believed, and upon which Tasso has founded one of the most beautiful passages of his poem.
		For weeks the siege was pressed, till the shattered fortifications and diminishing resistance of the besieged gave evidence that the city could not hold out much longer.
	courses.ed.asu.edu /gonzalez/APHB/ETexts/Mackay.C/Delusions2.txt (22028 words)

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		The choice of Tiberias for his first siege was suggested by the count of Tripoli, to whom it belonged; and the king of Jerusalem was persuaded to drain his garrison, and to arm his people, for the relief of that important place.
		Instead of a proselyte, he found a siege: the French panted and died on the burning sands: St. Louis expired in his tent; and no sooner had he closed his eyes, than his son and successor gave the signal of the retreat.
		After a siege of thirty three days, the double wall was forced by the Moslems; the principal tower yielded to their engines; the Mamalukes made a general assault; the city was stormed; and death or slavery was the lot of sixty thousand Christians.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/decline6.txt (17167 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantinople
		After a siege of three years (193-196) Severus razed to the ground its walls and public monuments, and made it subject to Perinthus or Heraclea in Thrace.
		Constantinople had, therefore, to sustain numberless sieges; it was attacked in 378 by the Goths, by the Avars and Persians during the reign of Heraclius (610-41), by the Arabs during the reign of Constantine Pogonatus (668-85), and again by the Arabs under Moslemeh in 717; many times also by Bulgarians, Patzinaks, Russians, and Khazars.
		In spite of the formal veto of Innocent III, the crusaders laid siege to the city, which soon surrendered (17 July, 1203).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04301a.htm (7395 words)

	Chapter LX: The Fourth Crusade. Part II. - History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 6 - Edward Gibbon, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They alleged the sanctity of a vow, which had drawn them from their families and homes to the rescue of the holy sepulchre; nor should the dark and crooked counsels of human policy divert them from a pursuit, the event of which was in the hands of the Almighty.
		Their first offence, the attack of Zara, had been severely punished by the reproach of their conscience and the censures of the pope; nor would they again imbrue their hands in the blood of their fellow-Christians.
		^59 From his dream of pride, Alexius was awakened by the siege of Zara, and the rapid advances of the Latins; as soon as he saw the danger was real, he thought it inevitable, and his vain presumption was lost in abject despondency and despair.
	www.historicalbookarchive.com /27-5.html (5147 words)

	Alexius IV Angelus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1201, two Pisan merchants were employed to smuggle Alexius out of Constantinople to Germany, where he took refuge with his brother-in-law Philip of Swabia, who was married to his sister Irene.
		While there he met with Boniface of Montferrat, Philip's cousin, who had been chosen to lead the Fourth Crusade, but had temporarily left the Crusade during the siege of Zara to visit Philip.
		Boniface and Alexius discussed diverting the Crusade to Constantinople so that Alexius and his father could be restored to the throne; in return, Alexius would give them Byzantine soldiers to help fight the Crusade, as well as money to pay off the Crusaders' debt to the Venetians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexius_IV_Angelus (609 words)

	VENETO.ORG
		The cargoes of merchants from Dalmatia, Zara and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) for example, bound for the plain of Padua, had to be unloaded in Venice.
		Zara fell, Tra6 (Trogir) and Spalato (Split) went over to the Hungarians, and in June 1358 Venice ceded her claim to the possessions in Dalmatia to the Hungarian crown.
		The little which Ladislas retained, principally Zara, was handed over to Venice, and the rest, Trafi, Sebenico, Spalato, Cattaro, Curzola (Trogir, Sebenik, Split, Kotor, Korcula), and the other islands she won in the war with Sigismund in 1420.
	www.veneto.org /history/serenissima2.htm (5144 words)

	Zara, Siege of -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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		Four battles were fought, three being repulses of Russian attacks and the fourth being a defeat of the Turks in their attempt to escape.
		Courage Under Siege: Disease, Starvation and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078261?tocId=9078261 (775 words)

	The Crusades
		Suspicion filled the camp; the most sinister rumours of intrigues and treachery were set afloat; and the discontented candidates withdrew at last to the other side of the city, and commenced operations on their own account, without a probability of success.
		Saph Eddin, the powerful Emir of Mousoul, was in the neighbourhood, at the head of a large army, advancing by forced marches to the relief of the city.
		The siege was abruptly abandoned, and the foolish crusaders returned to Jerusalem, having done nothing to weaken the enemy, but every thing to weaken themselves.
	robotics.caltech.edu /~mason/Delusions/epd_crusades.html (22487 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Crusades
		The siege of Jerusalem culminated in a bloody and destructive Christian victory in July 1099, in which many of the inhabitants were massacred.
		They agreed to take part in an attack on one of the Venetians’ rivals, Zara, a trading port on the Adriatic Sea, in the nearby Kingdom of Hungary.
		When Innocent III learned of the expedition, he excommunicated the participants, but the combined force captured Zara in 1202.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761561210__1/Crusades.html (4097 words)

	Welcome to The HistoryChannel.co.uk :: The Crusades
		The city had been besieged since 1189, but the siege had been prolonged by dissensions between the two chief Christian leaders, Guy of Lusignan and Conrad, marquis of Montferrat, both of whom claimed the kingship of Jerusalem.
		The sack of Zara in 1202 led to Pope Innocent III excommunicating the crusaders and prefaced more serious political schemes.
		Alexius (later Alexius IV), son of the deposed Byzantine emperor Isaac II and brother-in-law of Philip of Swabia, a sponsor of the crusade, joined the army at Zara and persuaded the leaders to help him depose his uncle, Alexius III.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/features/the_crusades-1.php (1887 words)

	Civ 3 :: View topic - Zara Class Heavy Cruiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Zara was an improved version of the Trento class with better armor than its predecessor.
		The Fiume, Pola, and Zara all took part in the Battle of Cape Matapan, where they confronted armament much bigger than the 8 inch shells they were designed to absorb.
		Ak, was posting all her ships in the same thread in the SOP forums to keep them together for us at the time.
	www.cdgroup.org /forums/tbs/civ3/viewtopic.php?t=6968 (1112 words)

	Etext
		He might expect that the siege of a city so venerable on earth and in heaven, so interesting to Europe and Asia, would rekindle the last sparks of enthusiasm; and that, of sixty thousand Christians, every man would be a soldier, and every soldier a candidate for martyrdom.
		But Queen Sybilla trembled for herself and her captive husband; and the barons and knights, who had escaped from the sword and chains of the Turks, displayed the same factious and selfish spirit in the public ruin.
		In complete armor, the oriflamme waving before him, Louis leaped foremost on the beach; and the strong city of Damietta, which had cost his predecessors a siege of sixteen months, was abandoned on the first assault by the trembling Moslems.
	etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/misc/6dfre10.txt.html (16938 words)

	The Middle Ages. 7 - 13.
		The Doge of Venice has long had trouble from the inhabitants of Zara across the Adriatic Sea and he uses the Crusade as an excuse to subdue the people of that city.
		At the siege of Zara some young mischievous boys venture outside the walls.
		The massacre of the prisoners after the siege of Acre is brought into the story and no attempt is made to defend Richard for his actions.
	www.marysmoffat.co.uk /bibliography/tosix/midy.htm (6601 words)

	Fall_1460
		The last garrisons of Cosimo and Mehmed are now in a climactic, heroic fight for survival.
		Spalato brings the siege into conclusion, Zara and Ragusa support.
		FIRENZE: Cosimo didn't give any orders to his troops, so they are in hold (which probably doesn't make any difference).
	www.digicamera.net /game/Fall_1460.htm (253 words)

	CHRISTOPHER A LONG - A Brief History Of Byzantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		By 626 he stood poised to strike the final blow and refused to be distracted by the Avar siege of Constantinople.
		Constantinople's walls and the redefined Byzantine state withstood the challenge, enduring two sieges in 674-678 and in 717.
		The Venetians controlled the ships and money for this crusade and persuaded the fighters to attack the Christian city of Zara in Dalmatia – a commercial rival of Venice – and Constantinople before going on to the Holy Land.
	www.christopherlong.co.uk /pub.byzantium.html (10222 words)

	Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Chapter 9, file b: Library of ...
		Guy of Lusignan, the King of Jerusalem, had long before collected the bold Knights of the Temple, the Hospital, and St. John, and had laid siege to Acre, which was resolutely defended by the Sultan Saladin, with an army magnificent both for its numbers and its discipline.
		His offers were, that if by their means he was re-established in his father's dominions, he would place the Greek church under the authority of the Pope of Rome, lend the whole force of the Greek Empire to the conquest of Palestine, and distribute two hundred thousand marks of silver among the crusading army.
		The siege was forthwith commenced, and carried on with considerable energy, until the crusaders gained possession of a tower, which projected into the middle of the stream, and was looked upon as the very key of the city.
	www.econlib.org /library/Mackay/macEx9b.html (18101 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Dalmatia, 1805-1809
		After a brief period of military administration, Venetian Vincenzo Dandolo was sent to Zara, to head the civilian administration as Provveditore Generale (July 1806).
		Meanwhile, a Russian fleet under Admiral Simjavin had established a base on the (formerly Venetian) Ionian Islands, and from there undertook operations against French-occupied Dalmatia.
		While the Austrians laid siege to Zara, news arrived that France and the Emperor had concluded an armistice (July 29th).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/dalmatia18051809.html (449 words)

	The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 18, 1587 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Distinguished himself in the siege of Zara in 1552.
		Commander of the Granaro, 1554-1557; and commander of artillery during the siege of Malta, May and September 1565.
		Ambassador of the order before the Holy See, 1579; in that same year, conventual bailiff of the Langue de Provence (one of the seven branches or langues of the order); the latter post carried the title of grand commander as well as the charges of control of accounts, treasury and government of the arsenal.
	www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/bios1587-ii.htm (4125 words)

	THE CRUSADES TO THE HOLY LAND
		Under the Doge of Venice, the city had become a wealthy and independent political port as the point of entry for trade from the East.
		When the news of the sack of Zara reached Rome, Pope Innocent III excommunicated the Doge of Venice and the entire expedition.
		In Zara, the Crusaders were approached by Alexius, who claimed his father Isaac as the rightful heir to the Byzantine throne.
	www.biblescripture.net /Crusades.html (5711 words)

	The Forbidden Parsnip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The choice of Tiberias for his first siege was suggested
		siege; but his Mamalukes, who remembered the fate of their
		a siege of thirty three days, the double wall was forced by the
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	The Fourth Crusade - Jonathan Phillips - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Final Preparations and Leaving Home, May 1201-June 1202
		The Crusade at Venice and the Siege of Zara, summer and autumn
		The Offer from Prince Alexius, December 1202-May 1203
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0670033502,00.html (301 words)

	Mission: Fun & Games - "So Many Games, So Little Time" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Games Workshop Blood Bowl Rantut III, Zara the Slayer
		Roleplaying accessories and books: Gamers Satchel (looks really cool, comes with a calculator), Spycraft Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide, LOTS of new Deadlands (Heart o' Darkness, Ghost Busters, Rain o' Terror, Canyon o' Doom, Bloody ol Maddy, and Cardstock Cowboys), Lord of the Rings Fell Beasts and Wondrous Magics, GURPS Character Builder and Vehicle Builder software
		CCGs: as above and, Warhammer Warcry Siege of Darkness
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