ABSTRACT
The Fall of Antioch during the First Crusade John France The capture of Antioch on the night of 2-3 June 1098 was an event of the highest importance for the First Crusade. A plan was devised to lull the garrison of Antioch into complacency; major Frankish forces marched south-east in full view of the city, as For an account of the siege of Antioch see John France, Victory in the East: a Military History of the First Crusade, pp. Such gaps in the narratives of the First Crusade are not unusual: no contemporary thought to record the date of the building of the bridge of boats in the early stages of the siege of Antioch and we have no real description of the battle against Duqaq of Damascus. Albert of Aachen's account of the First Crusade is wholly independent of the Gesta tradition: he seems to have based it upon the recollections of crusaders who had returned to the west.
