The crusades

King Richard the Lionheart battling the Saracens

In the late 11th century, crusaders marched on Jerusalem to wrest the Holy City from Muslim control. Writing for HistoryExtra, Dr Simon John explores the weeks leading up to the assault – and its bloody climax…

The Battle of Elchingen, Ney crossing the bridge at Elchingen on October 15 …

Painting by Frederic Schopin (1804-1880) depicting the First Crusade — "Battle delivered under the walls of Antioch between the crusaders led by Bohemond and the army of Karbouka, general of the Sultan of Persia, June 1098"

Knights Templar in battle

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My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical research on the accounts of Antioch and Jerusalem during the First Crusade.

Guy de Lusignan was King of Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. His overconfident Crusader forces, became trapped in a waterless desert area, and thus became easy prey for the Ayyubid forces of Sultan Salah-ud-din al-Ayyubi in The Battle of Hattin in 1187. As a direct result of the battle, Islamic forces re-conquered Jerusalem and several other Crusader-held cities.These Christian defeats prompted the Third Crusade, which began two years after the Battle of Hattin.

And this accurate meme referencing the crusades:

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Knights Templar on their heroic crusade for Western civilization! I so love that Picture, sad it's not drawn from myself!

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by Christian powers in order to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control. There would be eight officially sanctioned crusades...

The Eighth Crusade, launched in 1270 CE, stands as a significant yet often overlooked chapter in the history of the Crusades. This military expedition, led by King Louis IX of France, marked the last major crusade aimed at reclaiming the Holy Land. The campaign, ambitious in its goals, would see the death of its leader and ultimately the death of the crusading movement.