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Quotation from Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
“no man there was of such hardihood but his flesh trembled: and it was no wonder, for never was so great an enterprise undertaken by any people since the creation of the world.”
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Departure from Corfu—Capture of Andros and Abydos, trans. Frank T. Marzials
The fear of the host as it contemplates the walls and towers of the city.
Citation: "no man there was of such hardihood but his flesh trembled: and it was no wonder, for never was so great an enterprise undertaken by any people since the creation of the world." — Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Departure from Corfu—Capture of Andros and Abydos, trans. Frank T. Marzials. (id villehardouin-conquest-of-constantinople-q5)
Portrait: Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Louis Delaistre d’après Claude Jacquand, Public domain.
