Bar Hebraeus’ Chronography The Taking of Edessa from the Franks
X- In the year fourteen hundred and fifty-six of the GREEKS (A.D. 1145), when JOSCELYN the lord of EDESSA went to ANTIOCH, the men of HARRAN informed ZANGI, the lord of MAWSIL, that EDESSA was empty of troops. And ZANGI collected armies, and on the third day [of the week], on the twenty-eighth day of the month of the LATTER TESHRIN (NOVEMBER), came and encamped against EDESSA. And they pitched their camps by the Gate of SHA’E, close to the Church of the Confessors. And they set up seven engines of war against it, and troops who shot in arrows [as thick] as drops of rain. And all the...
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