Then they rode out a day's march,
and ordered their array with as many people as they had. But the odds
seemed too great, for they had no more than five hundred men mounted,
whereas on the other part there were well over five thousand. But
events happen as God pleases; for our people fought with the Greeks '
and discomfited and conquered them. And the Greeks lost very heavily,
while those on our side gained horses and arms enough, and other goods
in very great plenty, and so returned very happy, and very joyously,
to the city of Modon.
Afterwards they rode to a city called Coron, on the sea, and besieged
it. And they had not besieged it long before it surrendered, and
William gave it to Geoffry of Villehardouin (the nephew) and he became
his liegeman, and set therein a garrison of his men. Next they went to
a castle called Chale-
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mate which was very strong and fair, and besieged it. This castle
troubled them for a very long space, but they remained before it till
it was taken. Then did more of the Greeks of that land surrender than
had done aforetiine.
SIEGE OF NAPOLI AND CORINTH; ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND JOHANNIZZA
The Marquis of Montferrat besieged Napoli, but he could there do
nothing, for the place was too strong, and his men suffered greatly.
James of Avesnes, meanwhile, continued to besiege Corinth, where he
had been left by the marquis. Leon Sgure, who was in Corinth, and very
wise and wily, saw that James had not many people with him, and did
not keep good watch.
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