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Updated: June 6, 2025
It was for years subject to every storm of civil war was taken and retaken, the most famous siege lasting sixty days, when Henry III. personally conducted the operations, being attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the chief peers of the realm: this was in 1224, and the most ingenious engines of war were used to batter down the castle-walls, which till then had been regarded as impregnable.
In 1224 the chieftains of the Poloftsi one of those pastoral tribes which roamed on the Steppe and habitually carried on a predatory warfare with the Russians of the south sent deputies to Mistislaf the Brave, Prince of Galicia, to inform him that their country had been invaded from the southeast by strong, cruel enemies called Tartars* strange-looking men with brown faces, eyes small and wide apart, thick lips, broad shoulders, and black hair.
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