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C. E. Beneš

-five cats ( gatae 198 ), and ships carrying [war] machines; there were rumoured to be two thousand men in the entire force. They arrived at Pisa via the Arno River, and so overcame the Pisans’ army that in the month of September, on the feast of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian [16 September], the Pisans swore peace regarding the quarrel over Corsica according to the terms set by the commune of Genoa

in Jacopo Da Varagine’s Chronicle of the city of Genoa
C. E. Beneš

Genoese. 18 In the year of the Lord 1146 the Genoese armed twenty-six galleys and many ships carrying [war] machines, with one hundred knights and their warhorses. Then they went to Minorca and besieged it for twenty-two days. But then as winter was arriving they returned to Genoa with many spoils. They sailed around the entire island seizing lands, killing Saracens, and carrying

in Jacopo Da Varagine’s Chronicle of the city of Genoa