Alexander,
by this policy of resignation, which his chivalrous heroism does not
permit us to despise, had secured some repose for exhausted Russia. By
his victories over his enemies of the West he had given her some
glory, and hindered her from despairing under the most crushing
tyranny, material and moral, which a European people had ever
suffered.
THE SIXTH CRUSADE
TREATY OF FREDERICK II WITH THE SARACENS
A.D. 1228
SIR GEORGE W. COX
For six years after the end of the Fifth Crusade--in which
the crusaders, forgetting their vows, instead of delivering
Jerusalem sacked Constantinople--the Christians of Palestine
were protected by a truce with Saphadin, who had succeeded
his brother Saladin in power. This truce was broken by the
action of the Latin Christians, Pope Innocent himself, who
had been the leading spirit of the Fifth Crusade, continuing
to make known his designs for the recovery of the Holy Land.
Between the Fifth and the Sixth Crusades occurred that which
was in some respects the strangest manifestation of the
crusading mania, whereby the inspiration of the Pope and
other preachers of a new crusade carried some fanatics to
the maddest extremes.
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