Islam vs Christendom
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The First Crusade
The first crusade is always known as the sort of knights crusade because there was no real overall leader. The pope puts a man called Adamir Adamar de Puy in charge I mean extraordinarily thing to have a clergyman leading a huge military pilgrimage. So by the time the crusade gets to Jerusalem this 2500 mile largely on foot fighting at Nicaea actually fighting the bison times along the way and you know staggering on eventually outside the walls of Jerusalem in early June 1099.
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