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History's Greatest Speeches - Volume V - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Edited by Kevin Theis, Ft. Raphael Publishing Company with assistance from Evan Armacost (Pope Urban II) and Kelly Silva O’Rourke (Eva Peron)
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HISTORY’S GREATEST
SPEECHES
VOLUME V
CONTENTS
ANCIENT TIMES THROUGH 1700
Pope Urban II - Speech to the Council of Clermont - 1095
18th CENTURY
William Pitt the Younger - On His Refusal To Negotiate with Bonaparte- 1800
19th CENTURY
Napoleon Bonaparte - Farewell Speech to the Old Guard - 1814
William Jennings Bryan - Cross of Gold - 1896
20th CENTURY
Ida B. Wells - This Awful Slaughter - 1909
Eva Peron - Renunciation of the Vice Presidency - 1951
Thurgood Marshall - Brown v. Board of Education - 1953
POPE URBAN II
SPEECH TO THE COUNCIL OF CLERMONT
In 1095, the Byzantine emperor Alexios I. Komnenos sent an ambassador to Rome to petition the Pope for help in defending his empire against the invading Muslim Seljuk Turks. In November of that same year, Pope Urban II responded by delivering a sermon at the Council of Clermont urging his listeners to arm themselves and travel to the Holy Land - in particular Jerusalem - to seize it back from the infidels.
This speech led directly to armies of Europeans marching on Jerusalem and sacking several cities along the way.
This would be the first of seven military campaigns - known collectively as The Crusades - waged in the Middle East over the next two centuries, a bloody and infamous series of excursions that resulted in an untold number of deaths and unspeakable unrest and destruction.
Pope Urban would die in 1099, just two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem, but before news of the victory of the Christian army reached Rome. Urban was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1881.
The following is Pope Urban’s speech to the Council of Clermont that set off the First Crusade.
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O race of Franks, most beloved brethren, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved by God as shines forth in very many of your works set apart from all nations by the situation of your country, as well as by your Catholic faith and the honor of the holy Church! To you our discourse is addressed and for you our exhortation is intended. We wish you to know what a grievous cause has led us to your country, what peril threatening you and all the faithful has brought us.
We have heard, most beloved brethren, and you have heard what we cannot recount without deep sorrow how, with great hurt and dire sufferings our Christian brothers, members in Christ, are scourged, oppressed, and injured in Jerusalem, in Antioch, and the other cities of the East. From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the kingdom of the Persians, an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from God, a generation forsooth which has not directed its heart and has not entrusted its spirit to God, has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion. These Turks and Arabs have attacked and have conquered the territory of Romania as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont, which is called the Arm of St. George. They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them in seven battles. They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the empire. They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness. They circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases of the baptismal font. When they wish to torture people by a base death, they perforate their navels, and dragging forth the extremity of the intestines, bind it to a stake; then with flogging they lead the victim around until the viscera having gushed forth the victim falls prostrate upon the ground. Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows. Others they compel to extend their necks and then, attacking them with naked swords, attempt to cut through the neck with