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Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Nineteenth Crusade

The ninth crusade is the last, traditionally numbered crusade. It was the last a concerted, organized, armed expedition launched with the hope of either strengthening the crusaders states or recapturing jerusalem. There were many other smaller expeditions and movements that could also be called crusades. Some of them have been overlooked by history. The so called children's crusade in 12 12 has become a sort of part of popular myth important one to remember. But most of the participants in this movement were not children. Ah, they were tenagers and adults of various ages. They had no money, and the children simply ended upa languishing or being captured and sold into slavery in the port cities of it

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