Chronicles of the Crusades

Constantinople stood up out of the water ahead of the fleet, and Villehardouin writes that no man among them was so brave that his flesh did not tremble. He had helped bring them there, and tells it in the third person, the marshal of Champagne appearing in his own book like a stranger he vouches for: an army sworn to Jerusalem that instead broke open the richest Christian city on earth and sent its bronze horses and its relics west.