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The assault on Limesol was successful. The people made but a feeble resistance. Indeed, they had no weapons which could possibly enable them to stand a moment against the Crusaders. They were half naked, and their arms were little better than clubs and stones. They were, in consequence, very easily driven off the ground, and Richard took possession of the city.
The history of the law of wrecks. Richard having landed, Isaac asks a truce. Negotiating. Richard was a Norman, not an Englishman. Preparing for war. King Richard's battle-axe. The conquest of Limesol. Signaling for the queen's galley. The terms of peace which Richard offered to Isaac. How Richard faithlessly took King Isaac a prisoner. King Richard subjugates Cyprus.
Navigation in the twelfth century. Limesol in Cyprus. The wrecked ships. King Richard's seal. The wreckers. Isaac Comnenus. Law and justice. Law is not the creator, but the protector of property. Joanna's inquiries for her brother. An alarm. A retreat. Richard's vessel appears. Richard's indignation on meeting Joanna's vessel. Richard's contest with King Isaac Comnenus.
But the contest was not yet ended. The place to which Isaac had retreated was a city which he possessed in the interior of the island called Nicosia. From this place he sent a messenger to Richard to propose another conference, with a view of attempting once more to agree upon some terms of peace. Richard agreed to this, and a place of meeting was appointed on a plain near Limesol, the port.
The result was what might have been expected. Richard was victorious. The capital, Limesol, fell into his hands, and the king and his daughter were taken prisoners. The princess was greatly terrified when she was brought into Richard's presence. She fell on her knees before him, and cried, "My lord the king, have mercy upon me!"
Richard's galley was among those that found refuge at Rhodes; but, unfortunately, the one in which Berengaria and Joanna were borne did not succeed in making a port there, but was swept onward by the gale, and, in company with one or two others, was driven to the mouth of the harbor of Limesol, which is the principal port of Cyprus, and is situated on the south side of the island.
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