• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.145.3627.8-A
• Corpus ID: 39598800

All in the Same Boat.

@article{Costin1964AllIT,
  title={All in the Same Boat.},
  author={Frank Costin},
  journal={Science},
  year={1964},
  volume={145 3627},
  pages={
          8
        }
}

• F. Costin
• Published 3 July 1964
• History
• Science

In May 1147, a substantial fleet of around of two hundred ships, composed for the most part of contingents from Flanders, northern Germany and England, set sail from the southern English port of Dartmouth, where it had gathered. After putting in at the Portuguese coast for food and water, it assisted the Portuguese king Afonso in a seventeen-week siege of the city of Lisbon, held at the time by one of the taifa rulers of al-Andalus, which ended successfully with the city’s capture in October. Most of the fleet then sailed on, arriving eventually on the shores of Syria, but its subsequent achievements were probably less distinguished, and in any case certainly more obscure, as our major – though not unique – source for its activities, an eyewitness text known as the De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi (‘On the Storming of Lisbon’), does not cover the events that followed the city’s fall. 2