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Enrico Dandolo was Doge of Venice. He was born in 1108 and died in 1205. He was chosen Doge in 1192, at the advanced age of eighty-four. On the formation of the fourth Crusade Enrico Dandolo induced the senate to join in it, and by its help recovered the revolted town of Zara. Constantinople was next stormed, the blind old doge, it is said, leading the attack. In the division of the Byzantine Empire the Venetians added much to their dominions.
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Marino Falieri was the doge of Venice who repelled the Hungarians at Zara in 1346 and captured that city. He was born in 1274 and died in 1355 when he was executed for conspiring against the nobles of Venice in the hope of becoming Prince of Venice.
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The-fourth Crusade was set on foot by Pope Innocent III, who commissioned Fulk of Neuilly to preach it in 1198. Among its chief promoters was Godfrey of Villehardouin, seneschal of Champagne; Baldwin, count of Flanders and Hainaut; Daudolo, the aged doge of Venice; and the Marquis of Montferrat, who was chosen leader. The Crusaders assembled at Venice in the spring of 1202, but were diverted from their original purpose first by the capture of the Dalmatian town of Zara, and then by the expedition which ended in the sack of Constantinople and the establishment of a Latin empire there in 1204.
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The Algerie was a French cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1932 and scuttled in shallow water at Toulon in late November 1942 before being salvaged after the Second World War. The Algerie was a new design of cruiser at the time, developed in response to the Italian Zara type cruisers and fitted with a new longer range 8-inch gun. The Algerie was powered by eight Indret boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots and a range of 8000 km at 15 knots. She carried a complement of 616 rising to 629 when operating as a flagship. Armaments consisted of eight 8-inch guns; twelve 3.9 inch anti-aircraft guns; eight 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; sixteen 13 mm anti-aircraft guns; six 21.7 inch torpedo tubes arranged in two triples and three aircraft were also carried.
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The Fiume was an Italian Zara Class heavy cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1930. The Fiume was powered by eight oil-fired 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 5120 km at 25 knots. She carried a complement of 705 and was armed with eight 8-inch guns; twelve 3.9-inch anti-aircraft guns; ten 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 13 mm anti-aircraft guns and carried two aircraft.
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The Gorizia was an Italian Zara Class heavy cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1930. The Gorizia was powered by eight oil-fired 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 5120 km at 25 knots. She carried a complement of 705 and was armed with eight 8-inch guns; twelve 3.9-inch anti-aircraft guns; ten 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 13 mm anti-aircraft guns and carried two aircraft.
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The Pola was an Italian Zara Class heavy cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1931. The Pola was powered by eight oil-fired 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 5120 km at 25 knots. She carried a complement of 705 and was armed with eight 8-inch guns; twelve 3.9-inch anti-aircraft guns; ten 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 13 mm anti-aircraft guns and carried two aircraft.
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The Zara was an Italian Zara Class heavy cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1930. The Zara was powered by eight oil-fired 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 5120 km at 25 knots. She carried a complement of 705 and was armed with eight 8-inch guns; twelve 3.9-inch anti-aircraft guns; ten 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 13 mm anti-aircraft guns and carried two aircraft.
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