his age and country.

[Footnote 71: He called himself (see Alexias, l. x. p. 301.) What a
title of noblesse of the eleventh century, if any one could now prove
his inheritance! Anna relates, with visible pleasure, that the swelling
Barbarian, was killed, or wounded, after fighting in the front in the
battle of Dorylaeum, (l. xi. p. 317.) This circumstance may justify the
suspicion of Ducange, (Not. p. 362,) that he was no other than Robert
of Paris, of the district most peculiarly styled the Duchy or Island of
France, (L'Isle de France.)]

[Footnote 72: With the same penetration, Ducange discovers his church to
be that of St. Drausus, or Drosin, of Soissons, quem duello dimicaturi
solent invocare: pugiles qui ad memoriam ejus (his tomb) pernoctant
invictos reddit, ut et de Burgundia et Italia tali necessitate
confugiatur ad eum. Joan. Sariberiensis, epist. 139.]

The conquest of Asia was undertaken and achieved by Alexander, with
thirty-five thousand Macedonians and Greeks; [73] and his best hope was
in the strength and discipline of his phalanx of infantry. The principal
force of the crusaders consisted in their cavalry; and when that force
was mustered in the plains of Bithynia, the knights and their martial
attendants on horseback amounted to one hundred thousand fighting men,
completely armed with the helmet and coat of mail. The value of these
soldiers deserved a strict and authentic account; and the flower of
European chivalry might furnish, in a first effort, this formidable body
of heavy horse. A part of the infantry might be enrolled for the service
of scouts, pioneers, and archers; but the promiscuous crowd were lost in
their own disorder; and we depend not on the eyes and knowledge, but
on the belief and fancy, of a chaplain of Count Baldwin, [74] in the
estimate of six hundred thousand pilgrims able to bear arms, besides the
priests and monks, the women and children of the Latin camp. The reader
starts; and before he is recovered from his surprise, I shall add, on
the same testimony, that if all who took the cross had accomplished
their vow, above six millions would have migrated from Europe to
Asia. Under this oppression of faith, I derive some relief from a more
sagacious and thinking writer, [75] who, after the same review of the
cavalry, accuses the credulity of the priest of Chartres, and even
doubts whether the Cisalpine regions (in the geography of a Frenchman)
were sufficient to produce and pour f