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Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnatti : The Jones brothers New York : Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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themilitary results of the expedition were notequal to the commercial advantages gained bythe fleet while nominally engaged in the HolyWar. The Venetians, quick to perceive theadvantages of trading-posts in the East, di-verted their energies to the securing of com-mercial privileges in the ports of Syria andEgypt. Such was the energy of the Republic the rashness to give battle to their fleet, theywon over that monarch a complete and deci-sive victory. It was on this occasion thatPope Alexander III., in whose interest thebattle was fought, gave to the doge Ziani aring, and instituted the celebrated ceremonyof nmrrying the Adriatic.^ As a result of the This nuptial rite, so interesting and poetical,consisted in the espousals of the doge to the Sea.It was celebrated annually, when, on the occasion,the duke would come forth on the Rialto, drop awedding ring into the water, and exclaim: We-tlius esoouse thee, O Sea. as our bride and queen 1* THE PEOPLE AND THE KINGS.—THE FREE CITIES. 37
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MAKlUA^jli UF THE DOUE OF VENICE WITU TUE SEA.Drawn by H. Vogel. 258676 38 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. Tictory the Emperor Otho was obliged to con-eent to the calling of a congress, which assem-bled at Venice and determined the conditionsof peace. It will be remembered that the first armiesof Crusaders marched overland, through Hun-gary, by way of Constantinople, into AsiaMinor. Later on the advantages of the waterroute to the East began to be recognized.Venice became the favored port of debarka-tion. Here, in the year 1202, the warriorsof the Fourth Crusade gathered, preparatoryto embarkation in the Venetian fleet. Hereit was that the Crusaders, unable to pay theeums which themselves had promised as theprice of their transportation to the East, wereinduced, against the angry protests of thePope, to make up the deficiency by joiningthe Venetians in a campaign against the in-surgent people of Dalmatia. The story ofthis episode, of the subsequent diversion ofthe Fourth Crusad

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